The Taiwanese government expressed its intention to participate in ceremonies in both cities last year and did so for the ...

Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another fell on the city of Nagasaki. Between 120,000 and 220,000 people died in the ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about. When President ...

New research explores how natural systems respond to extreme disruption and the factors that influence recovery. The findings ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped hasten the end of World War II in 1945, they also unleashed ...

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 ...