The focus of remembrance was especially sharp in Hiroshima, where the city marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing on ...

The United States dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, hastened the end of World War II. Japan formally surrendered less than a month later. Ohio has more than one connection ...

In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President Truman's government decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On ...

On August 6, 1945, a seismic event occurred that would forever change the course of history and warfare. At the controls of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, was Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.

Experts worked through typhoon conditions to neutralize a massive World War II bomb discovered in Hong Kong's Quarry Bay neighborhood Saturday morning.

Two friends set out to explore the lasting trauma of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Two friends, connected by family histories on opposite sides of World War II, set out to explore the lasting ...

The global forum, hosted by two antinuclear organizations over two days through Monday, adopted a declaration stating that ...

I was sitting with an old soldier named Ray Gallagher. He held in his hands a small doll. The doll’s name was Marianne and it was the doll that he took with him to war. It had been given to him by his ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by his wife and daughter, have paid their respects to atomic bombing victims in Nagasaki as he wrapped up a tour to some of the worst-hit places in World War II ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic-bomb survivors known for their powerful global activism. These survivors, hibakusha in Japanese, have dedicated ...

Doves are released over the Peace Statue in Nagasaki during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Saturday in Japan. (Kotaro Ueda/Kyodo News via AP) Kotaro Ueda / AP ...