Tuesday marks 79 years since an atomic bomb dropped by the United States devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Mayor ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 50,000 people gathered at this city’s Peace Memorial Park on Thursday to remember the victims of the world’s first atomic bombing and hear a renewed appeal for world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors pray in front of the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing ahead of a ceremony to mark the anniversary ...

The simplest explanation for why dropping nuclear bombs on Japanese cities was not considered a war crime in 1945 is that the people dropping the bombs were the same people defining the rules. The ...

If Obama wants to fulfill his promises to 'reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy,' he must do more ...

On August 6, 1945, acting on President Harry Truman’s command, the United States did the unthinkable: they dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, aiming to force Japan to surrender and bring ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

TOKYO – Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during his historic visit to the city ...