The Arctic territory is of strategic importance, under the flight paths that nuclear-armed missiles from China and Russia ...

From Nara, Einstein and Elsa traveled overnight by train “from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.” to Hiroshima Prefecture. In the early ...

A wooden relief depicting the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, long displayed at an art gallery, has returned to the ...

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Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

A photographic exhibition at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London explores “Hiroshima’s experience as history’s first nuclear target.” The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during ...

It’s hot in Hiroshima in August. The sun hangs above you, malevolent, radiating. This is the hottest summer Japan has ever had. The city itself is new and clean, and the sun bounces right off it. The ...

Ari Beser, left, and Kosuzu Harada, right, pose for photographs after an interview with The Associated Press in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — When the United States dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was on board both of the American B-29 ...

The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, viewed from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the film, “Memory of Hiroshima Through Imagination”. On August 6th, 1945, the United States’ military dropped an ...

Ari Beser, left, and Kosuzu Harada, right, pose for photographs after an interview with The Associated Press in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP ...

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 ...