On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, destroying much of the city and killing tens of thousands ...

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A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. By the end of that year, approximately 140,000 people had ...

The municipal assemblies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are urging the government to maintain its three non-nuclear principles of ...

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NAGASAKI--Strict criteria over whether a person qualifies as a hibakusha survivor has meant that many people, through no ...

Hiroshima/Nagasaki, May 11 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which suffered U.S. atomic bombings in the closing days of World War II, will take differing approaches toward ...