Now 92 years old, Kikyomi Kouno recalled a local train trip with her mother 79 years ago from their home, 22 miles outside of Hiroshima, to search for her two sisters in the city that had been hit ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bombing was dropped on Nagasaki. The atomic bombs instantly took thousands of ...

HIROSHIMA — The cost of war is ever-present in this nuclear-scarred city, which this week is playing host to a high-stakes summit of the Group of Seven (G-7) nations amid Europe’s bloodiest conflict ...

Aug. 6 marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The blast destroyed two-thirds of the Japanese port city, instantly killing about 140,000 people. The focus at memorials ...

HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the remains of some 70,000 people who died in the 1945 atomic ...

SEVEN DECADES ago, the United States dropped the first -- and last -- atom bombs ever used in war onto two Japanese cities, killing about 200,000 people, hastening the end of World War II and ...

MADISON, Wis. -- On August 6, 1945, the United States military dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in a conflict over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The first test of the new technology happened ...

Editor’s Note: Paul Sracic, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and professor of politics and international relations at Youngstown State University, is a former Fulbright scholar at Waseda ...