A Japanese atomic bomb survivor who spent decades researching American prisoners of war killed in the Hiroshima attack has ...

A former editor of Politico, the author will talk about his new book and the history of the atomic bomb at an event at ...

Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor, spent decades researching the forgotten American prisoners of war killed in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “‘Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?’ The befuddlement of 5-year-old Myeko Nakamura moments ...

A Japanese peace activist is hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament by keeping alive the stories of the atomic bomb survivors through the creation of a mobile museum.

He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

In the final phase of World War II, on 6 and 9 August 1945, US caused the worst destruction in history by dropping atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, 'Hiroshima and Nagasaki'. Bombs named "Little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...

Visitors to the Historic Wendover Airfield can now see how crews loaded some of the first atomic weapons during World War II, ...