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 ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

The solemn anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki come and go each year, with world leaders delivering poignant and heartfelt messages about what happened and expressing their general ...

Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. By the end of that year, approximately 140,000 people had ...

The United States dropped an atomic bomb called "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing approximately 70,000 to 140,000 people instantly. Many died in the following ...

Editor’s note: This article was sent to employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1995, at the 50th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I originally wrote the following ...

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Sen. Lindsey Graham this month repeatedly hailed the atomic bombings as an argument for why the US shouldn't stop supplying ...

In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an official booklet with the title “Announced United ...

NAGASAKI—Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said he is withholding an invitation to Israel to attend the city’s annual peace ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who survived – known as Hibakusha – have carried their suffering as living testimony to the catastrophic humanitarian ...

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 ...