Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains ...

Eighty years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and ...

This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Arms Race.” ...

Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese cities to end WWII. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945 ...

Trudging through the ruins of Hiroshima after the US atom bombing four days before in 1945, five-year-old Masaki Hironaka ...

President’s comments incited angry backlash in Japan, with Hiroshima’s city assembly passing resolution condemning statements ...

The atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later. The bombs forced the nation's surrender.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui reads out a peace declaration during a ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack at the Peace Memorial Park.

At 84, Shoso Kawamoto is one of the few surviving hibakusha—the Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors—orphans, still telling his story. When I first interviewed Kawamoto for my work in 2012, I hadn ...

What remained of Hiroshima after an atomic bomb detonated approximately 2,000 feet above the city on the morning of August 6, 1945. USAF/Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images ...

But another witness to the 900-foot-wide fireball that heated the air above Hiroshima to 500,000 degrees Fahrenheit has made it her life's mission to eliminate nuclear weapons. "We atomic bomb ...