As the nonproliferation movement enters a tenuous new era, Japan’s firsthand experience with nuclear warfare is crucial in ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world ...

The Japanese Air Self Defense Force on Thursday deployed its first three F-35B stealth fighters in southwestern Japan.

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

Many aging Hiroshima survivors express frustration over growing global support for nuclear weapons as deterrence.

People in Hiroshima launched lanterns onto the Motoyasu River, which flows through Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, to ...

In a talk in Hiroshima, Japan, as part of a Pilgrimage of Peace coinciding with the 80 th anniversaries of the United States ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

Burned and sickened by radiation, many of Hiroshima’s survivors forgave. They wove pacifism into their DNA, the vanguards of a vanquished nation that cast off decades of imperialism. People ringing ...

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

The United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II.