An exclusive excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima recounts the tale of one the few western eye-witnesses, a POW, and the guard ...

Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two American B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

Even General Tojo Hideki, often considered one of the most bellicose leaders of wartime Japan, and who was later executed by ...

As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities ...

The newly-installed bell in Nagasaki’s Catholic cathedral expresses “compassion and respect” between US and Japanese ...

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.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.