In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families ...

The horrific damage, death and destruction caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, demonstrated the cataclysmic capabilities of nuclear weapons. The devastation ...

people who have experienced the atomic bombing in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki) and how that term differs from “hibakusha.” He wanted to write a song about atomic bomb survivors and sing it at ...

Paul Tibbets was the aircraft captain of the Enola Gay B-29 plane that dropped the first bomb, the Little Boy, on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

On 6 August 1945, the first of the only two atomic bombs ever used in ... Three days later a plutonium bomb, almost twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima, exploded 1,640 feet above ...

4. Historical context: It builds on the momentum of decades-long efforts, from the first atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Cold War nuclear arms race, emphasising that the goal of ...

Hundreds of tons of unexploded bombs from the war remain buried around Japan and are sometimes dug up at construction sites.

Nuclear experts see Tehran as facing up to a year of hard work to master the knotty basics of building a deliverable atom ...

U2 has announced what it’s referring to as a “shadow album” with the upcoming release of “How to Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb,” meant to honor the 20th anniversary of the band’s 11th ...

A number of unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. military during World War II have been unearthed in the area, officials said ...