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

Shohei Tsuiki walked in front of diplomats from 25 countries including Pakistan and Iraq plus United Nations officials at the ...

The people of Nagasaki had no time to seek even a decent shelter. However, the Nagasaki University Medical School Hospital ...

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 ...

A potential explosion aboard a damaged Malta-flagged cargo ship carrying ammonium nitrate from Russia could cause a blast as ...

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 ...

HIROSHIMA--A rare visit inside the symbolic Atomic Bomb Dome here is testimony not only to the extent of overall damage caused by the atomic explosion, but also the huge amount of work that has ...

On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the ...

Some had their uniform blown off by the explosion ... United States and Japan. The Atomic Bomb brought unthinkable grave disaster and misery to the people of Hiroshima. It appears that the ...

Hiroshima’s inhabitants came into contact with nuclear radiation in several ways: those close to the centre of the explosion received lethal doses for more than a minute after the atomic bomb ...

The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little ... worn at the time of the explosion However, Japan did not surrender. Three days later, the Americans dropped another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki ...