In short, while the image is real, it happened after the bombing of Nagasaki, not Hiroshima. The earliest example of the claim that the photo showed an "atomic shadow" appeared in an October 2009 ...

The website “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945” is now live and has been nominated for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program. An English version is ...

Glenart College in Arklow recently commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings with a fascinating three-day exhibition of 30 posters kindly provided by the Japanese ...

Truman informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan. Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

Although there are no definitive figures, it is estimated that 200,000 people were killed as a result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A timeline of the most destructive ...

The Nobel Peace Prize was on October 11, 2024 awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as ...

Tuesday marks 79 years since an atomic bomb dropped by the United States devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Mayor Matsui Kazumi has called on people to press leaders relying on nuclear ...

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 ...