Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

In our annual ritual of remembrance, Hiroshima is recalled not so much as a site of mass slaughter, but as a symbol of peace, ...

More A-bomb survivors in Japan are sending written life stories to the government-run memorial halls in Hiroshima and ...

Ukraine’s ambassador is warning of a growing threat from China and Russia as Australia marks the end of World War II in the ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...

With fewer atomic bomb survivors still alive to share their stories, donated materials are becoming more and more vital for ...

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.

A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial. Military historians will host a ...

People across Merseyside and beyond will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day tomorrow, August 15. In May this year, the ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...