At the 2025 NATO Summit, Donald Trump compared US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites to the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While Trump claimed that the strikes ended the Israel-Iran war ...

This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Arms Race.” ...

“I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima,” Trump claimed. “I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing.” UIG via Getty Images ...

Among the passengers is 84-year-old Ito Masao, who was just four years old and riding his bicycle near his home only 3.5 kilometres from the Hiroshima hypocentre when the bomb exploded.

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945, and then another on Nagasaki three days later. Shortly afterwards, Japan surrendered, ending World War II.

The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more.

The imperial couple observes a moment of silence every year on four days commemorating World War II -- Okinawa Memorial Day, the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have begun a two-day visit to the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima to pay their respects to the war dead, as 2025 marks 80 years since the end of World War Two.

The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more.

The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more.