President Donald Trump warned that the 'greatest' threat right now are nuclear weapons that 'can blow your heads off for ...

But Hiroshima has not been targeted. Although B-29 planes have been flying over the city, they never drop bombs. Japanese civilians have become so accustomed to the planes, they have given the B ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

Below is an extraordinary document, the first detailed account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, written by one of the survivors, the Rev. John A. Siemes, S.J., professor of modern philosophy at ...

Kimie Kishi smiles at an event celebrating 50 years of the "Kinoko-kai" group for those affected by atomic bomb microencephaly, in Hiroshima's Higashi Ward on June 27, 2015. (Mainichi) MIYOSHI ...

A tree surgeon in Hiroshima lovingly treats trees that live on around 8 decades after the A-bomb devastation. He intentionally leaves their scars intact as some of them near the end of their lives.

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.