Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. (Junko Kimura / Getty Images) This week marks the 80th anniversary of President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United ...

(Reuters) -Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's dropping of an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima ushered in the age of nuclear weapons. Following ...

A Japanese filmmaker has taken up the story of an atomic bomb survivor whose memory she is determined to honor. Director ...

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, ...

In August 1945, two U.S. B‑29 bombers took off from the tiny Pacific island of Tinian and forever altered the course of history. On August 6, the Enola Gay dropped a uranium bomb dubbed “Little Boy” ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...