“We are now ab0ut 2 hrs from bombs away,” Lewis, 26, wrote as the B-29 approached the Japanese city it was about to destroy. “The bomb is now alive. And it’s a funny feeling knowing it’s right in back ...

Lewis’s account, which he wrote during and after the bombing, has just been put up for sale by Dan Whitmore, a rare book dealer in Pasadena, California, who is handling it on consignment for the ...

A question asked after a lecture turned into a 13-year dialogue between an atomic bomb survivor and a descendant of a hibakusha, which produced lessons for the world in these turbulent times in a ...

Resident Evil finally grapples with the long-term trauma of the Raccoon City catastrophe Last year marked the 80th ...

Paul Tibbets of Quincy, Illinois, began his military career 89 years ago, leading to his role piloting the Enola Gay over ...

Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of ...

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a third plutonium core was prepared for potential use against Japan. Instead, it remained in US ...

The 2023 film 'Oppenheimer' depicts the life of American physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), who led the development of nuclear weapons during World War II. The following March, it won ...

New START, and treaties like it, represent humanity’s uneasy attempt to coexist with its own capacity for destruction ...

While the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dominate historical memory, they were only part of a broader and escalating campaign that brought Japan to surrender. The sustained naval ...

Hiroshima, Feb. 18 (Jiji Press)--The main tower of Hiroshima Castle will close on March 22 due to aging, marking the end of public access inside the building after it was destroyed by the 1945 U.S.