On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

The Atomic Energy Commission recently formally signified its intention of supporting long-range medical studies of the survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan, to be conducted by the Committee on ...

A firsthand account written by a Hiroshima survivor nearly 80 years ago is finally set to reach readers around the world this summer after being discovered in a U.S. archive. The long-forgotten memoir ...

NHK has learned that a documentary film showing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the immediate aftermath of the August 1945 atomic bombings contains scenes with a wider field of view than previously known.

At 11:02 a.m on August 9, 1945, 11-year-old Yoshiro Yamawaki was sitting down to lunch with his brothers at their home in ...

In a grim letter written to Meiko Kurihara after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the young woman received the bad news.

This is the last of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the ...