President Barack Obama is in Hiroshima, Japan Friday, the first sitting president to visit the site of the first wartime use of an atomic weapon. Speaking at the city's Peace Memorial Park ...

Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as blackened shells ... Another photo is of a bridge scorched by the blast. There are also then-and-now images of Urakami Cathedral, destroyed by the bomb ...

after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the same location near Aioi Bridge now (inset). Telegraph Tour Discover one of the world's most fascinating destinations – including ...

Till then, Hiroshima – unlike other major cities across ... it had been the largest commercial district in Hiroshima,” said Okihiro. “Now, instead of feeling sad about it, I just explain ...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in his twenties when he found himself in Hiroshima on the morning of ... its protagonist was determined to play it down. But now, at the age of 93 and dying from cancer ...

Then the shockwave arrived ... I think that’s why I was so scared,” says Terao, now 82. These nightmarish memories are of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The young Terao had just survived ...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, U.S. airmen dropped the nuclear bombs Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... were destroyed. Since then, approximately 1,900 people ...

Tuesday marked exactly 71 years after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, which reduced the city to rubble days after the bombing of Hiroshima. Crews work on constructing the new M-1 Rail streetcar ...