Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small bonfires light the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, on Tuesday. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI ...

Most children in the city of Kokura, Japan, know what the weather was like 80 years ago. It was foggy on August 9, 1945 - a day that changed history forever. Without the fog, a plane would have ...

Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...

TOKYO -- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, ...

Japan's Hiroshima on Wednesday marked 80 years of the US atomic bombing on the city, with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors. The event was marked by a minute of silent prayer at 8.15am (23 ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons ...

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the ...