Now 92 years old, Kikyomi Kouno recalled a local train trip with her mother 79 years ago from their home, 22 miles outside of Hiroshima, to search for her two sisters in the city that had been hit ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bombing was dropped on Nagasaki. The atomic bombs instantly took thousands of ...

HIROSHIMA — The cost of war is ever-present in this nuclear-scarred city, which this week is playing host to a high-stakes summit of the Group of Seven (G-7) nations amid Europe’s bloodiest conflict ...

Aug. 6 marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The blast destroyed two-thirds of the Japanese port city, instantly killing about 140,000 people. The focus at memorials ...

HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the remains of some 70,000 people who died in the 1945 atomic ...

MADISON, Wis. -- On August 6, 1945, the United States military dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in a conflict over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The first test of the new technology happened ...

Editor’s Note: Paul Sracic, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and professor of politics and international relations at Youngstown State University, is a former Fulbright scholar at Waseda ...

It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has died at age 88. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor who spent decades researching the forgotten ...