Imagine the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and then multiply it by 670,000 times. Terrifying doesn't really ...

But what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and what were the events that led to the attacks? Tensions between the US and Japan had been growing for decades before the Second World War.

It is fine for Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama to honor the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims. But in a historical and moral sense, any such commemoration must be offered in the context ...

There are other countries with nuclear weapons who might see “pre-emptive” strikes as the most rational self-defense ...

The first bomb struck Hiroshima on August 6, followed by another on Nagasaki on August 9. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, though not widely known, was present on both islands when the bombs were detonated.

In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...

Nearly eight decades ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan. That week in August changed the world forever; ever since, the world’s ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families ...

Hiroshima will start informing all countries and regions with diplomatic channels, including Russia and Belarus, of ...

St. Paul and Nagasaki, Japan. This was the first relationship of its kind between U.S. and Japanese (or any Asian) cities.

At the time, the prime minister would alternate his attendance every year, going to the memorial ceremony in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but now the prime minister normally visits both cities.

"Let us work hand-in-hand to abolish nuclear weapons. No more Hiroshima. No more Nagasaki. No more hibakusha [the Japanese term for atomic bomb survivors. No more war." Kawase met Taniguchi in his ...