Eighty years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the city has transformed. The bombing immediately killed 80,000 people and destroyed 70% of the city's buildings. Today, Hiroshima is a ...

North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world truly changed. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, followed three days later by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about. When President ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Exactly 80 years since an atomic bomb was used in war for the first time, thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Wednesday, as the city's mayor warned world ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another fell on the city of Nagasaki. Between 120,000 and 220,000 people died in the ...

Hiroshima survivor recounts atomic blast 80 years ago Setsuko Thurlow was 13 when the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. In 2017, she shared her story as part of her ...

The trip will come a full 42 years after the first Presidential trip to Japan drew calls for a visit to Hiroshima as well. But, despite generally positive relations between the two nations in the last ...