Difficult and controversial as it was, President Truman's decision to drop the bombs saved countless lives, both Japanese and ...

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

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city on Wednesday ...

Kenichi Kubota, 58, a tree doctor, has continued an annual survey of trees that were exposed to the radiation in Nagasaki ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past ...