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 ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. But it wasn't about Japan alone. It was the fear of ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday renewed his pledge to uphold Japan's three principles of not possessing, producing ...

The 80th anniversary of this pivotal event in history is a particularly notable one, as it will be the last milestone for most of the few remaining survivors.

The political battles now raging in Japan in the aftermath of the July Upper House election are being waged across many ...

In war, the deaths of civilians and combatants are unfortunately inevitable. Today, 80 years after the dropping of atomic ...

Americans are divided between support and opposition for the US decision to drop an atomic bomb during World War II.

As a 7-year-old boy in Hiroshima, Howard Kakita was hoping to catch the vapor trail of a B-29 bomber. A sudden blast knocked ...

Wesley Burris remembers waking to a morning of potent, white light and panic as the planet’s first atomic bomb went off in a test in the Jornada del Muerto desert near his family’s Southern New Mexico ...

As an actor in Hollywood, Paul Newman supported nuclear disarmament. As a sailor in World War II, he believed the atomic bomb ...

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