HIROSHIMA--Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...

When the bomb exploded above Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m., the heat and radiation from the blast devastated the city, killing about 140,000 people by the end of the year.

At 8.15 a.m. on 6 August 1945, a B-29 bomber called Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’ over Hiroshima. The thermal radiation from ...

technology to colorize black-and-white photographs of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb survivors. Over the years, many atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha) have overcome hatred and sadness in hope that ...

6 peace gathering in Hiroshima. The committee swung into action around the Atomic Bomb Dome in 1981, such as lying on the ground in a "die-in" protest for evoking the tragic scene of people killed ...

Over 330,000 people were killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. But the number of foreign victims is not known. One residents' group is now fighting for recognition of Chinese victims of ...

After 52 months of studying atom-bomb damage to buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense summed up their findings for the benefit of U.S ...

Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be ...

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