August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress America asks that you take immediate heed of what we say on this leaflet. We are in ...

Photos were shot by 27 people and one Japanese organization between Aug. 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing around 140,000 people, and December of the same year.

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 ...

She would see it several more mornings in a vision, and even wore her glasses to bed to make sure. Hiroshima. It was not a good time in her life. She was newly divorced. Thieves had chopped down a ...

Anxious for combat Jack Watson was the kind of Marine who belonged on a recruiting poster ... Young and his shipmates heard the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, they realized they would ...

Atomic bomb survivors are known as hibakusha. Their average age is above 85. One challenge is preserving efforts to let more people know about the realities of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Yukio Nakata. At seventeen seconds after 8:15 a.m. on August 6 1945, the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb ...

The men are told they will be dropping a bomb with an explosive force ... 200,000 people were killed as a result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A timeline of the most ...

At a news conference toward the end of August, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui referred to a group that refused to vacate the open space before the Atomic Bomb Dome. “Countermeasures must be ...

The development of a nuclear bomb that would be 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II is "significantly ahead of schedule," according to U.S ...

Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Japan. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was left devastated, with up to 166,00 dying in the blast ...