Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was ... and in the three months after the attack from injuries and radiation poisoning. Three days later, on ...

Shortly after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped ... Some 120,000 hibakusha died of burn and radiation injuries in the aftermath of the attacks, according to Nihon Hidankyo.

In public, her injuries drew jibes from the local children ... The lack of medical and financial support for atomic bomb survivors in the early years after the war prompted Shizuko to express ...

Dorn said. The atomic flash was spotted 430 miles away in southern Idaho, yet cocky GI's and grinning generals popped out of their foxholes within the shadow of the fearsome bomb less than ten ...

The United States dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the first bombing of Hiroshima, together killing more than 210,000 people. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ...