The Japanese city of Hiroshima observed the 78th anniversary of the devastating atomic bombing on August 6. Here is a description of how the day's events unfolded. Many people gathered at ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was ...

On 6 August 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was left decimated after the United States dropped an atomic bomb. Haunting before and after photos reveal the devastation that occurred there when ...

Farrell relays the report to Washington: the bomb will be dropped on August 6. Estimated take off time 02.45 ... Little Boy ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base ...

She was at home in her family’s estate in Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:16 a.m. on August 6, 1945. Suddenly an incredibly bright flash of light enveloped her, then the world around her collapsed.

It was a horrific event that changed the world in a millisecond The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima ushered in a new age of imminent peril in which the civilized world stood and continues ...

August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress America asks that you take immediate heed of what we say on this leaflet. We are in ...

At the ceremony held in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6 to mark the 78th anniversary of the city’s atomic bombing, Matsui read out the Peace Declaration and referred to the Hiroshima ...

HIROSHIMA--Bells tolled, and mourners observed a moment of silent prayer Aug. 6 as the city of Hiroshima remembered the tens of thousands of residents who perished 78 years ago in the world’s ...

Kathy Gilsinan: The book starts with two missiles out of North Korea and ends with essentially the end of the world 72 ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...