Eighty years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the city has transformed. The bombing immediately killed 80,000 people and destroyed 70% of the city's buildings. Today, Hiroshima is a ...

Since then, its threat has shaped and justified global conflict. Both Iraq and Iran have been accused of seeking the bomb, ...

Gelett Burgess’ 1895 poem “Purple Cow” allows “I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one, But I can tell you, anyhow, ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world truly changed. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, followed three days later by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

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 ...