Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a Russian, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, ...

On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, the United States conducted the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon. With a blinding flash and a searing fireball, humanity entered a new era, having ...

Eighty years ago, upon facing the tremendous force of the atomic bomb, Truman, scientists, and citizens voiced their remorse and struggle in letters. What messages do these voices carry for us today?

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, those two ...

Potsdam, Germany, July 25 (Jiji Press)--A memorial ceremony for victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II was held in the eastern German ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. “Practically all living things — human and animal — were ‘literally seared to death’ by the new weapon loosed against the ...

This handout picture taken on August 6, 1945 by U.S. Army and released from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows a mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb dropped by B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the city of ...