As the nonproliferation movement enters a tenuous new era, Japan’s firsthand experience with nuclear warfare is crucial in ...

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Many aging Hiroshima survivors express frustration over growing global support for nuclear weapons as deterrence.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.

When the Japanese city of Hiroshima became the site of the first-ever use of a nuclear weapon in war, two-thirds of the city ...

The 80th anniversary of this pivotal event in history is a particularly notable one, as it will be the last milestone for most of the few remaining survivors.

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

People in Hiroshima launched lanterns onto the Motoyasu River, which flows through Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, to ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.

In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space ...