Shadows left behind at Hiroshima have left people confused ... hundreds of thousands of people were killed. After the nuclear blast, “shadows” appeared to be left on the remaining ...

Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Little Boy ...

Seventy years ago, the US Air Force's "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a 15-kiloton nuclear bomb, code-named Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast, which was the ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

They will be flying in the early morning, but the crew still do not know which of three cities will be their target: Hiroshima ... killed by the intense heat, blast and radiation.

Growing up, he constantly heard rumours that survivors carried diseases and their future offspring might be tainted by the radiation from the August 1945 blast. Sakuma left Hiroshima to seek a new ...

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 by the force of the blast.

The decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been considered the most important – and perhaps most controversial - event in twentieth-century history. It ushered in many of the major ...

Toshiyuki Mimaki said Gaza workers deserved a Nobel prize after his organisation was given the award Toshiyuki Mimaki, representative director of the Nihon Hidankyo, attends a press conference ...

The firestorm enveloped Hiroshima and lasted three days, trapping and killing many survivors of the initial blast. Especially vulnerable were people who couldn’t escape in the first minutes ...

Ms Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over by the force of the blast. The US bombs that laid waste to Hiroshima on the morning of Aug 6, 1945, and to Nagasaki ...