Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United ...

The United States dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, hastened the end of World War II. Japan formally surrendered less than a month later. Ohio has more than one connection ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

NAGASAKI, Japan -- The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing memories ...

The case of the two bombings is more nuanced than many Americans are led to believe.

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

What happens when the witnesses are gone? In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a new generation is finding ways to carry atomic bomb memories forward ― through art, empathy and technology.

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...