At 0815 on 6 August 1945, a bright flash set the sky over Hiroshima ablaze. A gigantic column of smoke rises above the city. The first nuclear bomb in history has just been dropped on the largest ...

Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from ...

The people who were unlucky enough to be in Hiroshima’s zone of total destruction on Aug. 6 never saw the mushroom cloud ...

HIROSHIMA--Authorities here tightened security ... for evoking the tragic scene of people killed under the mushroom cloud from the U.S. nuclear attack. The steering panel did not organize a ...

Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been nominated for inclusion in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. The education ministry ...