The first atomic bomb ever exploded was a test device, insouciantly nicknamed the Gadget. In mid-July 1945, American scientists had trucked the five-ton mechanism from their secret laboratory at ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic ... country's nearly half-century of aggression across Asia. Fukahori, who worked at a shipyard about two miles from where the bomb was ...

A national memorial hall in Japan for victims of the atomic bomb plans to hold its annual ... a merchant who was active in Nagasaki in the 19th century and contributed to Japan's modernization.

His critics, many of them atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha, say it's a hollow promise as Japan relies on the U.S. nuclear umbrella while building up its own military.