A woman shows her injuries in Hiroshima; her skin was burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn ...

At 8:15 a.m.—as survivors still remember—came a flash of light, followed by a shock wave that blew people and buildings apart ...

For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...

In 1949, the cold war became a nuclear arms race when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb. United States military and ...

The explosion instantly killed at least 70,000 ... That fell to the Red Cross which opened the Hiroshima Atomic-bomb Hospital in 1956 to provide medical services to those suffering from the ...

Although there are no definitive figures, it is estimated that 200,000 people were killed as a result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A timeline of the most destructive ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Visitors to the memorial park for Hiroshima's atomic bombing said they hoped Friday's Nobel Peace Prize for Japan's atomic bomb survivors would boost efforts ...

Used to contain, memorialise and ward off nuclear disaster, concrete is the primary building material of the atomic age | ...

The first nuclear bomb test, conducted in 1945, set off an international arms race that included nuclear testing. But how many nuclear bombs have been detonated during tests and in active war?

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town of Hiroshima, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over ...

The first nuclear bomb hit Hiroshima on August 6 ... killing 74,000 people including many who survived the explosion but died later from radiation exposure. Japan announced its surrender in ...