Eighty years ago this week, the world truly changed. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, followed three days later by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

HIROSHIMA -- The number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in this western Japan city has surged to a record ...

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 ...

Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings say the expiry of the New START Treaty risks a new nuclear arms ...

HIROSHIMA—The Hiroshima District Court ordered the central government on Jan. 28 to pay a total of about 3.3 million yen ($21 ...

The end of the pact could unleash a new arms race between the world’s top nuclear powers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite fiction, but we did just pass one notable milestone of global peace and ...

Japan marked 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed, as sabre-rattling between the United States and Russia keeps the ...

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Tadatoshi Akiba was selected for his efforts to promote peace, including nuclear disarmament. Hiroshima was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in August 1945.