(Reuters) -Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's dropping of an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima ushered in the age of nuclear weapons. Following ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

Janet Nakakihara, 91, tells her Hiroshima bombing story in a flat, matter-of-fact voice, a restraint that forces her listener to fill in the emotional blanks, feeling ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

Eighty years ago, the US government carried out one of world imperialism’s most horrific war crimes: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The bombings, on August 6 and 9, 1945, ...

As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, the mayor of Nagasaki is warning that the world could see the same kind of devastating attack again. Approximately 2,600 people, including ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about. When President ...