Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...

TOKYO -- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Wednesday marks 80 years since the United States dropped its first nuclear bomb on Japan, an event that reshaped global history. Remembrance services were held in Hiroshima, where ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

Okinawa authorities discovered a U.S.-made bomb believed to date to World War II during an airport safety survey on a southern Japanese island, the first ordnance found in a series of inspections ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family paid their respects Friday to the victims of the atomic bombing 80 years ago of the city of Nagasaki. Naruhito, his wife, Empress Masako, ...

Eighty years ago, today, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, just before the end of World War II. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that the voices of survivors opposing ...