A photograph that has spread on Reddit and Facebook for years allegedly showed a bonsai tree that survived the United States' ...

On August 6 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan's Hiroshima. Three days later, it dropped the second and ...

When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, ...

The governor of Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture has visited a former nuclear testing site and a museum conveying the history of ...

The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the ...

A powerful symbol of the horrors of nuclear war has arrived in Geneva. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ...

What began as frustration over the state of world peace has turned in something beautiful. A group of residents have folded ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it has been "an honour" to visit Hiroshima. He told Japanese journalists: "I'm here first and foremost to remember, and to again sympathise on behalf of the Irish ...

The ashes of about 70,000 victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in August 1945 in the closing days of World War II ...

The quiet summer streets of Hiroshima are once again stirring with the uneasy winds of memory. With the approach of August ...

The trailer for the book "Ghosts of Hiroshima," narrated by Martin Sheen, is here. It will be made into a film by James ...

A few days later, on August 9, 1945, Bockscar flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atom bomb, Fat Man. The devastation killed thousands more and destroyed a substantial part of the city. These ...