But even now, no one on board the Enola Gay knows its final destination. A weather plane reaches Hiroshima. The sky over the city is clear. On the ground, a yellow alert rings out for 22 minutes.

"Our unity will move leaders now relying on nuclear deterrence to shift their policies," Matsui said. Hiroshima Mayor Matsui Kazumi wants Japan to become a party to the UN nuclear ban treaty.

AFP/Getty Images The atomic bomb destroyed thousands of buildings in Hiroshima Iwao Nakanishi, 89, was in one of the buildings when the city was bombed. He is now the head of a local group ...

Nihon Hidankyo is the Japanese organisation representing survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings. The heads ...

HIROSHIMA—Hiroshima’s municipal board of ... around the world could learn about what unfolded in Hiroshima. It has now been translated into about 20. Ironically, the graphic depictions in ...

Oppenheimer' has finally opened in Japan, where two cities were attacked by the nuclear bombs, invented by the American ...

HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a biopic ... to rave reviews in July but hasn’t been shown in Japan—until now. On March 12, the movie’s distributor, Bitters End Inc., ...

Bederson, now 95, said he “certainly” knew the damage the "Little Boy" bomb could cause when it was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 June 1945, but believed it was “justified” to “end the war”.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A photo dated September 1945 of the remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building ...

Mazda Motor Corporation recently introduced a new service to its Mazda Museum in Hiroshima, Japan and is now offering a virtual tour of the main exhibition areas via Google Maps Street View*.