Michiko believes that Akiko’s death was due to genetic mutations caused by the atomic bomb, as well as the cancer that took ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan >> Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of ...

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 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The first nuclear bomb test, conducted in 1945, set off an international arms race that included nuclear testing. But how many nuclear bombs have been detonated during tests and in active war?

TOKYO (AP) — For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday’s ...

Nearly one-fifth of Japan's hibakusha, as survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known, said they had ...

Nihon Hidankyo has for decades represented hundreds of thousands of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. These survivors, known as the hibakusha, are living ...

Hiroshima was hit on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing around 74,000 people. The first atomic bomb was dropped on the western ...