Aerial images reveal the scale of destruction left behind in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs, while also showing damage across Osaka and Kure during the final stages of World War II.

Religious sisters and others pray during Mass on Aug. 6 at the World Peace Memorial Cathedral in Hiroshima, Japan, for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing. The Mass was part of a "Pilgrimage of ...

On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm ...

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 ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

Eighty years later, American Catholic bishops visited Japan to demand nuclear disarmament—and called for political leaders to ...

The country’s postwar Constitution is under scrutiny as Japan rebuilds its military, spooked by a rising China and other potential threats. By Hannah Beech Reporting from Hiroshima, Japan Nine nations ...

Stephen Herzog does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

As shocking new images of Gaza’s flattened landscape smothered in ash and dust emerge, the world is pausing to remember another conflict that produced widespread devastation: the atomic bomb dropped ...

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Eighty years ago today, the first of two atom bombs was used in anger. Hiroshima was vaporized. But one plane, one bomb, destroying a city was inconceivable. The Japanese now could ...

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...