At 8:15 a.m.—as survivors still remember—came a flash of light, followed by a shock wave that blew people and buildings apart ...

The cause for the canonization of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus, took an important step ...

Ferebee has advised that if Hiroshima is chosen, a t-shaped bridge in the middle of the city would make an effective target. Later that day, Tibbets is handed a package containing 12 cyanide tablets.

For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental ...

Nuclear weapons, he noted, have only been used twice, both against Japan. The Manhattan Project that developed the bomb was ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 12 (Reuters ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb used in wartime on the Japanese city of Hiroshima ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct 13 (Reuters ... Seventy-nine years later, and a day after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the survivors the prize, a long line formed outside the museum, with ...

Many of the group’s members are hibakusha, survivors of the August 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they’re getting on in years. M.G. Sheftall uses the witness of men and ...