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 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. Those who survived – known as Hibakusha – have carried their suffering as living testimony to the catastrophic humanitarian ...

On March 9, 1945, the U.S. launched the deadliest air raid in history on Tokyo. 81 years later, most Americans still don't know it happened.

Japan this week marks 80 years since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. The first on August 6, 1945 killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and three ...

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 this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another fell on the city of Nagasaki. Between 120,000 and 220,000 people died in the ...

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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 ...

The first atomic bomb was dropped on the western city of Hiroshima by the US bomber Enola Gay, nicknamed "Little Boy" - Copyright AFP/File - The first atomic bomb was ...

Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. By the end of that year, approximately 140,000 people had ...