It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

Following are some facts about the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima and a second attack on Nagasaki three days later ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.

As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.

Eighty years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aging survivors — some more than 100 years old — reveal the ...

The influence of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki runs deep in Japanese popular culture. One of the most famous examples of this is Godzilla, a prehistoric creature awakened by the ...

The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...

Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the pilot of the Enola Gay.

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. An early newspaper account said “the obliterating blast” had “destroyed 60 per cent of the Japanese city.” ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about.