Hiroshima, Japan News

Some Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced key genetic changes that may have sparked the onset of a form of thyroid cancer, new research indicates.

"Yesterday, Dec. 7 1941, a date which will live in infamy" -- Franklin Roosevelt.

Photo: H.E. McCracken Middle School teacher Steve Broome stands on a bridge across from the A-Bomb Dome and Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan.

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In the days that followed Sept. 11, 2001, most people agreed that the United States had been the victim of a "terrorist" attack; after all, 3,000 innocent civilians had been targeted and murdered for political ...

One thousand paper cranes will fly from Marlborough Girls' College this week to the Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan, where they will join millions of paper cranes made by students from around the world.

Posters of charred bodies, diseased patients and birth defects marked the opening of the first UAS Nuclear Awareness Conference.

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk was only 24 years old when he boarded the B-29 The Enola Gay and changed the history of the world by helping to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, leading to the end of World ...

During morning rounds in the acute palliative care unit at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center , our interdisciplinary team met Mr.

"It was the easiest mission that I ever flew in my life." That's how 87-year-old Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk remembers the historic flight of the Enola Gay to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

About 45,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Wednesday at the Peace Memorial Park here to mark the 63rd anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

A woman prays along the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome at the Peace Memorial Park in memory of the victims of the world's first-ever attack with a nuclear bomb 63 years ago in Hiroshima, Japan.

Today is August 6. Sixty-three years ago the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.

The Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack amid hope the next U.S. president will work for the abolition of atomic weapons.

The Siouxland Peace Coalition will hold a one-hour vigil at noon today, Hiroshima Day, to express determination that weapons of mass destruction never be used again.

Today marks the anniversary of a part of American history that often goes unnoticed, but one Siouxland organization is helping folks remembering.

The group of 16 marchers methodically made their way north along Route 7 from Pownal to Bennington, with beating drums and Buddhist chants - all to mark Hiroshima Day.

People gather to pray for the victims in front of the cenotaph during the ceremony to mark the 63th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan ...

Sixty-three years ago today, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, helping to end WWII.

Once there were just two: two atomic bombs. It was 63 years ago today that the United States exploded the world's first - "Little Boy" - over Hiroshima, Japan.