Revisiting the math and morality of the Allied forces’ decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

An exclusive excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima recounts the tale of one the few western eye-witnesses, a POW, and the guard ...

Hiroshima was bombed by the American military on Aug. 6, 1945, causing the deaths of about 140,000 residents by the end of the year and bringing to a close Japan’s imperial rampage across Asia and the ...

Writing for The Conversation, Nick Megoran reveals an extraordinary story of when US and Japanese troops stopped fighting in ...

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the survivors' stories ...

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States was not necessary, an acclaimed novelist and speechwriter has ...

The United States had been at war with Japan for nearly four years. The Japanese instigated this carnage by bombing Pearl ...

THERE were several sources of angst in Japan back in June, when Donald Trump likened the massive US attack on Iranian nuclear ...

With a “secret” weapon preparing to gamble and end the war in the Pacific, only a select number of scientists, military ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

By RICH LOWRY Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the ...

Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the people of Japan that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.” ...