More A-bomb survivors in Japan are sending written life stories to the government-run memorial halls in Hiroshima and ...

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, ...

With fewer atomic bomb survivors still alive to share their stories, donated materials are becoming more and more vital for ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

An exhibition on the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago opened at the Battleship ...

VJ Day stands for Victory over Japan Day. It's the name given to the day in August 1945 when Japan surrendered, bringing the Second World War to a complete end. Earlier that year, on 8 May, Germany ...

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.