Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more complex ...

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After 52 months of studying atom-bomb damage to buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense summed up their findings for the benefit of U.S ...

It sustained damage to its propeller ... explosion of ammonium nitrate were it to detonate." "In fact the [atomic] bomb in ...

Hiroshima survivor and Nihon Hidankyo assistant secretary general Jiro Hamasumi won't rest until there are zero nuclear ...

The men are told they will be dropping a bomb with an explosive force ... 200,000 people were killed as a result of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A timeline of the most ...

Nobel prize a timely reminder, Hiroshima locals say Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo ... and subsequent related damage such as cataracts. A whirlwind of heat generated by the ...

These scenes could have come from Hiroshima or Nagasaki after the atomic bombings in World War II ... and energetic neutrons that penetrate the body and cause acute cellular damage, leading to death ...

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Yukio Nakata. At seventeen seconds after 8:15 a.m. on August 6 1945, the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb ...

Kimie Kishi smiles at an event celebrating 50 years of the "Kinoko-kai" group for those affected by atomic bomb microencephaly, in Hiroshima's Higashi Ward on June 27, 2015. (Mainichi) MIYOSHI ...

After the presumed success of what an atomic bomb could do, military planners decided to use Hiroshima as the test ... above the ground for maximum damage, the bomb’s force caused a pressure ...

Located inside Hiroshima Peace Park, the museum stores about 22,000 items that describe the damage caused by the ... is gaining momentum as Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo ...