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 ...

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Japan on Thursday marked 75 years since the world's first atomic bomb attack, which killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and left many more deeply traumatised and even stigmatised. A second bomb ...

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 ...

Hibakusha groups fear Tokyo may ease restrictions on hosting nuclear weapons. They argue that the only nation to suffer ...

EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – As Saturday marked the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Massachusetts Peace Action will be hosting a remembrance event in Easthampton Sunday to ...

On this day 75 years ago, amid the backdrop of the Second World War, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, setting off a chain of events that would ultimately lead to 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 ...