On August 6th, 1945 the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The total number killed by the bomb exceeded 200,000. Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on ...

As the title implies, Iain MacGregor’s The Hiroshima Men is a people-centric history of the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. In my view it’s only partially successful in that aim. In telling the ...

His daughter, Connie Kirby, worked with Dennis Denenberg to turn his World War II experiences into a new book. “Remembering the Cloud: The True Story of WWII Pilot Charlie Reddig” includes details ...

Aug. 6 is a tragic anniversary for Notre Dame Sister Lucia Akie Aratani. She was 10 years old when 500,000 of her townspeople died in the 1945 atomic bomb explosion. In the aftermath of the trauma, ...

At 83, Setsuko Thurlow is still full of passion and principle, but she’s had enough. “We have waited 70 years,” she said of her fellow hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivors). “I think the time has come.” ...

On July 16, 1945, the Atomic Age was born when a device with an explosive “yield” roughly equal to 20 kilotons of TNT was detonated in the desert of southeastern New Mexico. The explosion was so ...

なにもかもなくした手に四まいの爆死証明 なにもかもなくした手に 四まいの爆死証明 I have lost everything; in my hand, four atomic bomb death certificates — Atsuyuki Matsuo, 1945 Eighty years after the city’s ...

James Cameron is working on Last Train From Hiroshima, a World War II drama about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and he says it might be the hardest thing he’s ever made. Speaking to ...

A register of people who died as a result of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima was given an airing on Thursday for its upkeep. After offering a silent prayer at 8:15 a.m., the exact ...

More than seven decades after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II, the site of the devastation remains one of the most popular ...