The Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945. The "Little Boy" bomb, weighing roughly 4 tonnes, killed an estimated 90,000 people, about 30% of the city's then-population.

An intensive two-week program in Japan explored vital sustainability issues, the legacy of Hiroshima, and the importance of ...

The first Western journalist into Hiroshima after the US dropped its atomic bomb was Wilfred Burchett, a British-born Australian journalist. His subsequent article in the Daily Express — not then the ...

Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors ... who survived the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki recently chose to come out of the shadows and share her unique story.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A photo dated September 1945 of the remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and ...

Severely disfigured when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, she spent her life warning others about the ...

documentWW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D ...

August 6 marks the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack. Three days after its bombing of the city of Hiroshima, in western Japan , the United States dropped a second atomic bomb ...

Terumi Tanaka, 92, is one of the three co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo, a group for those who lived through the US atomic bomb attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima ... in the shadows not receiving ...

Hideto Matsuura was exposed to radiation while in his mother’s womb when the United States detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima on ... we have been carrying its shadows on our shoulders.” ...