A Japanese peace activist is hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament by keeping alive the stories of the atomic bomb ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United ...

The United States dropped two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6, and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively, bringing about the end of World War II and ushering in the ...

The case of the two bombings is more nuanced than many Americans are led to believe.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighty years ago, the world entered the nuclear age when Enola Gay, a modified U.S. Army Air Corps B-29 Superfortress, dropped an ...

On Monday August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 140,000 people instantly. 70% of the city was destroyed. A few days later on August 9th, another atomic bomb ...

Within four months after the atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 31-year-old war correspondent John Hersey went to Hiroshima, interviewed survivors and wrote a series of stunning ...

The lone flying B-29 takes off into a great blue sky. As much as I am a child of Apollo, I am also a child of the Cold War, a late boomer who never went through the 'duck and cover' drills experienced ...

TOKYO: Walt Disney Japan apologized Monday after a tweet sent from its corporate Twitter account wished readers "congratulations on a not special day" on the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic ...

Kerry says "everyone should visit" atomic bomb sites, but W.H. seems to agonize. — -- President Obama is heading to Japan later this month, a trip that has the White House weighing whether he’ll ...