A postman with a red back On August 9, 1945, the day an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, 16-year-old Taniguchi Sumiteru was delivering mail on his bicycle about two kilometers from ground zero ...

This is the fifth and final installment in the series. On a train bound for Nagasaki, just two days after the atomic bombing of the city, a man discussed the devastation of the blast, including ...

During World War II, thousands of prisoners of war were detained on in a camp in Nagasaki. When the atomic bomb was dropped on ... material on the war, and on post-war experiences in the ...

The first hit Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first.

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

The Nagasaki prefectural government opened the orphanage known as Koyoryo in 1948, three years after the Aug. 9 bombing, about 3 kilometers north of ground zero, in what is now called the ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93.

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 ...

Nearly eight decades ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki, Japan. That week in August changed the world forever; ever since, the world’s ...