Toshiaki Nakagawa echoes a belief shared by many older people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. As the son of a Hibakusha, those who survived the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan, he knows the ...

As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks, a new generation of storytellers is stepping up to preserve the memories of survivors and ensure the world never forgets the human cost ...

From Nara, Einstein and Elsa traveled overnight by train “from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.” to Hiroshima Prefecture. In the early ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan -- Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Wesley Burris remembers waking to a morning of potent, white light and panic as the planet’s first atomic bomb ...

Eighty years ago, today, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, just before the end of World War II. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that the voices of survivors opposing ...