Priests from several religions pray for the victims of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki upon the 60th anniversary. Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images It has been over seven decades since the atomic bombs were ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Japan solemnly marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week, the world reflects on one of the darkest and most defining moments of modern history. On 6 ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about. When President ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its ...

Just as the children of Holocaust survivors are considered second-generation survivors, so, too, are the offspring of the hibakusha, Japan’s atomic bomb survivors. Leslie Sussan is considered one of ...

Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another fell on the city of Nagasaki. Between 120,000 and 220,000 people died in the ...

President Donald Trump has ordered two U.S. nuclear submarines be deployed to address threatening rhetoric from Russia. In response, Russian President Vladmir Putin has withdrawn from a treaty that ...

Seventy-five years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on a second Japanese city, Nagasaki.