Trudging through the ruins of Hiroshima after the US atom bombing four days before in 1945, five-year-old Masaki Hironaka ...

The atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later. The bombs forced the nation's surrender.

At 8.15am on August 6 1945, a single atomic bomb dropped by the US military obliterated Hiroshima, claiming an estimated 140,000 lives by the year’s end. Markin ...

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

That sentiment was echoed by Rishu Kanemoto, a 19-year-old student, who saw the film on Friday. "Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the atomic bombs were dropped, are certainly the victims," Kanemoto said.

Real Photo of 'Atomic Shadow' Taken After Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima? Not Quite The picture has been widely shared for years and purportedly shows the aftermath of the explosion in the ...

Was it right to use the bomb? In this video, photographer Yoshito Matsushige describes what it felt like to be in Hiroshima immediately after the explosion.

While some historians have questioned President Truman’s decision to incinerate Hiroshima — and the subsequent atomic bombardment of Nagasaki three days later — most Americans have accepted ...

As city pays homage to the victims of the 1945 nuclear bombing, the memories are being preserved by the next generation. Survivors tell stories to “successors”.

With a blinding flash and a sky-high fireball, the world's first atomic bomb exploded over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The American bomb killed about 70,000 Japanese instantly ...

On the back of Hiroshi Okumoto’s business card is the old address of the hardware store his grandfather founded in 1891: Lot number 12, Harimaya-cho, Hiroshima-shi. The locale, now part of a ...