A photo supposedly showing the "atomic shadow" of a human and a ladder that was created when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs ... Side of a Barn Caused by the Detonation of "Little Boy" over ...

The website “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945” is now live and has been nominated for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program. An English version is ...

Barack Obama was the first American president to visit Hiroshima since the nuclear attack on the city. In his speech in May ...

When visitors step inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan, they’re faced with a photo of a large clock, hands ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading to the end of World War Two. The article contains graphic images and ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

A new book on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima focuses on one family's experience of the tragedy. The author says she hopes it will help underscore the value of peace and the human toll of nuclear ...

Since 2006, Hiroshima has invited representatives of all countries that have embassies in Japan to the ceremony, which prays for those who lost their lives in the 1945 atomic bombing of the city ...

But Hiroshima has not been targeted. Although B-29 planes have been flying over the city, they never drop bombs. Japanese civilians have become so accustomed to the planes, they have given the B ...

Survivors of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bomb dropped ... changed her view of war and peace. “We had a societal commitment to violence. I bought into that also until I went to Hiroshima.