HIROSHIMA, Japan — Heads bowed in prayer and memory, the citizens of this self-styled City of Peace fell silent at 8:15 local time this morning, 60 years from the instant of the atomic flash that ...

After the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, Washington sent a team of researchers to interview eyewitnesses. Only one interview was conducted in English. A ...

"Hiroshima Maiden," a new play debuting this weekend at Gammage Auditorium, tells the tale of some of the human cost of the atomic bomb attack on Japan during World War II. In 1955, 25 Japanese women ...

In the National Archives in College Park, the reels are numbered 11002 and 11003. Shot by a U.S. Army Air Forces film crew in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the months after the atomic bombs were dropped, ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Combined with a similar nuclear strike on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, the attacks helped lead to ...

ixty years ago this week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs, unleashing mass death and destruction—and an arms race lasting a half-century. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, coupled ...