Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, survivors recount their harrowing experiences in a stark reminder of the ...

On Aug. 6 – the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord – Cardinal Cupich presided over a Mass for peace in Hiroshima, where ...

In a talk in Hiroshima, Japan, as part of a Pilgrimage of Peace coinciding with the 80 th anniversaries of the United States ...

With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now exceeding 86, the anniversary is considered the last ...

On Wednesday, 29,220 days have passed since the first use of a nuclear weapon, and 29,217 since the second. What in ...

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Just three months after the end of the war in Europe, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.