Eighty years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and ...

Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Japan. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was left devastated, with up to 166,00 dying in the blast, and ...

A+E Networks holds worldwide distribution rights for “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later.” “Hiroshima: 75 Years Later” premieres on Sunday, Aug. 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on History Channel in ...

A Nobel Prize-winning anti-nuclear group launched an online memorial Tuesday for the 38,000 children who died in the US ...

Highlights include The Sanctification of Hiroshima, a 1985 piece in which a physicist affiliated with the Manhattan Project supports the Hiroshima but not the Nagasaki bombing. Meanwhile, John E.

As we mark 75 years this week since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I find myself recalling a story I heard from a professor and Buddhist ...

In total, the August 6 and 9 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, killed more than 200,000 people. Six days after the second attack, Hirohito announced Japan’s unconditional surrender.

On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, articles are appearing everywhere discussing the historical, philosophical, scientific, public health and social meaning of ...

On August 6th, 1945, the American B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the second atomic weapon ever detonated, and the first used in actual war.

NAGASAKI, Japan — Visiting the two Japanese cities razed by atomic bombs during World War II, Pope Francis called Sunday for a “world without nuclear weapons,” which he said are “immoral ...