A Japanese atomic bomb survivor and an Aboriginal Australian who lived through multiple nuclear tests slammed their respective governments Tuesday for not participating in U.N. negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. "I especially condemn the Japanese government's inability to fully commit to these ...
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Tuesday showed to the press 10 newly discovered photos, including one taken by the crew of the Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The shot shows the mushroom cloud rising skyward on the morning of Aug. ...
About 300 people gather to mourn Korean victims of the U.S. atomic bombing, which included many brought to the city against their will.
When U.S. President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Hiroshima peace memorial on Friday to honor the 140,000 victims of the world's first atomic bomb attack, one of the city's best-known native sons was standing nearby — and in a position to take ...
U.S. President Barack Obama's historic Hiroshima visit Friday signifies a step forward in his stated 2009 dream of a "world without nuclear weapons." Tokyo and Washington say Obama's trip offers a chance to recognize the tremendous suffering of innocent citizens caused by the U.S. nuclear ...
It was a fine, clear day in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. That fact determined the fate of the city, together with its numerous inhabitants. Given the perfect weather conditions there, a B-29 Superfortress bomber nicknamed the Enola Gay headed for the city, skipping the ...
The reports of a possible visit in May are creating excitement and concern about how it will be perceived.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and laid a wreath at the base of a monument dedicated to victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing. The mayor, with fresh memories of the deadly terror attacks that struck her city last ...
On Aug. 9, 1945, a 9-year-old Chiyoko Iwanaga was 10.5 km away from the hypocenter of the atomic bomb that leveled Nagasaki. Although she said she escaped the flash of thermal radiation and bomb blast when she unwittingly dove into a drainage ditch, Iwanaga believes ...
Setting foot in Hiroshima in early August for the first time, Robert Croonquist expected to feel sorrow for the massive number of lives lost in the U.S. atomic bombing of the city 70 years ago. Instead, the 67-year-old American could not help rejoicing at seeing ...
At 86, Yoshitoshi Fukahori is still traumatized from failing to save his older sister, Chizuko, after an atomic bomb devastated the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Two years older than Fukahori, Chizuko was at a relative's home in the city's Urakami district when ...
More than 250 protesters rode their bicycles on an 11-km loop of Washington on Sunday, the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki A-bomb attack, to call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. The event was organized by anti-nuclear advocate group Global Zero. Similar events were ...
