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On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that ...
Treated as outcasts for decades, these survivors and their children are now speaking out against global nuclear rearmament.
The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on Aug. 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the ...
At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...
The head of the island’s economic office attended commemorations in Japan for the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...
At the Nagasaki peace conference, joined by representatives from 138 cities in 16 countries, discussions were held on ...
Few survived the nuclear bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Keiko Ogura lived, to tell a grim tale.
Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She ...
As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a local leader is calling for global action and warns that the world could see this devasation again.
This is a condensed version of a 1992 article based on an interview with Ted Van Kirk, of Northumberland, the navigator of the Enola Gay, who died in 2014. The article originally appeared in The Daily ...