HIROSHIMA--Mary Popeo remembers being shocked when she learned about the horrendous effects of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which she was never taught about back home in the United States.
KAWAGOE, Japan >> Hopes are rising that more attention will be paid to a couple who created a series of large paintings ...
Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors known for ...
HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a biopic about the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” opened in the United States to rave reviews in July but hasn’t been shown in Japan ...
When visitors step inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan, they’re faced with a photo of a large clock, hands ...
On 6 and 9 August, it will be 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki towards the end of World War Two. Getty Images Lanterns are seen on the ...
Last Train from Hiroshima, a new movie based on American author Charles Pellegrino’s 2015 book of the same name and his ...
They will be flying in the early morning, but the crew still do not know which of three cities will be their target: Hiroshima, Kokura or Nagasaki. Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee have ...
But another reason is education. In the 1940s and ’50s, U.S. officials attempted to cover up the human impact of the bombs, keeping the footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including that taken by ...
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand ...
Many of the group’s members are hibakusha, survivors of the August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they’re getting on in years. M.G. Sheftall uses the witness of men and ...
The decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been considered the most important – and perhaps most controversial - event in twentieth-century history. It ushered in many of the major ...