On this day 64 years ago, an American B-29 named the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. We know that as many as 80,000 Japanese died instantly. We know the city was ...

At 84, Shoso Kawamoto is one of the few surviving hibakusha—the Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors—orphans, still telling his story. When I first interviewed Kawamoto for my work in 2012 ...

Paglia’s father was among many thousands spared because of President Truman’s decision to launch a nuclear strike against ... days after that single bomb destroyed Hiroshima, Japan offered ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings resulted in thousands of causalities in Japan.

Japanese authorities were reportedly aware another strike could follow Hiroshima, but decided to endure it rather than surrender. The next attack, a plutonium bomb nicknamed Fat Man, fell on ...

Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, a second U.S. atomic bomb hit Nagasaki, killing a total of 80,000, including an additional 30,000 Koreans. Most of those killed in both cities were civilians.

The United States conducted the world’s first atomic attack on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people. It dropped a second bomb three days later on Nagasaki ...