Eighty years ago, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Up to 250,000 people, mostly civilians, lost their lives. Since then, many have been sincerely and others purposefully moralizing ...

Early bombing raids against Japan exposed the challenges of long-distance warfare, but American commanders soon adopted a devastating new tactic. By shifting to incendiary bombing, they sought to ...

“‘Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?’ The befuddlement of 5-year-old Myeko Nakamura moments after the first atomic bomb fell at 8:15 on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, ...

As they fly wing to wing over a vital spot in the development of the atomic bomb, a native of Japan and a former US military officer hope their friendship outshines the horror of the blasts that took ...

New York: W. W. Norton, 2025. Pp. xiv, 206. Maps, notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 1 324105305 The Bombing of Japan and the End of the War with Japan Richard Overy, a British historian of World ...

Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...

Servicemen, reporters and photographers perch on the USS Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945, for the onboard ceremony in Tokyo, in which Japan surrendered, ending World War II. The flyboys were in the air as ...

TOKYO: A Japanese atomic bomb survivors group that won the Nobel Peace Prize has strongly criticised US President Donald Trump's surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing, calling it ...