HIROSHIMA--A special exhibition is being held to showcase images and videos documenting this western city’s destruction from ...

After the atomic bomb was droppped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, historians and survivors, alike, have collected information on the bomb’s destruction and future impact. The modern city of Hiroshima ...

Kikuko (Kiko) Otake was only 5 years old during the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 6 and on Aug. 9 of 1945. For years afterward, she kept the horrific memory of ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 55,000 people standing in Peace Memorial Park bowed their heads at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, marking with silence the precise moment that the U.S. military dropped an atomic ...

An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. (Stanley Troutman/AP) Review by Karin Tanabe When visitors step inside the ...

On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima became the first target of an atomic bomb in human history. In a single instant, a thriving city was reduced to ruins, and tens of thousands of lives were lost ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan — When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima, by ...

The lingering shadows etched into the infrastructure of Hiroshima serve as mysterious reminders of the catastrophic events that unfolded on August 6, 1945, when the city fell victim to the devastating ...