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 ...

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...

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, ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

Eighty years ago, today, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, just before the end of World War II. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that the voices of survivors opposing ...