Hiroshima

China will be the elephant in the room.

In this moment, perhaps the most important thing we can do is to remember, to honor the past by taking the most serious lessons from it.

State media in Russia reported that its Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was loaded on a silo launcher.

Nuclear weapons generate their huge explosive power through the splitting—or fission—of certain elements, such as uranium or plutonium.

Nuclear weapons are an abomination, the ultimate evil, an unprecedented blasphemy against creation.

U.S. forces dropped nuclear bombs on both cities at the end of WWII, killing up to 210,000 men, women, and children.

Arms and defense experts say preventing potential Russian nuclear attack depends on multiple variables, including type of bomb and where it would be dropped.

"Biden and Putin have veto power over the continued existence of life on earth and Xi Jinping appears to be trying to join them in this lethal perversity."

They may be associated with death and disaster, but these popular dark tourism destinations get thousands of visitors a year.

World War II historians still hotly contest president Harry S. Truman's decision to drop atomic weapons on civilian populations.

The elderly plaintiffs who fell ill after exposure to radioactive rain will now be given the same medical benefits as other survivors of the atomic blast.

Authorities believe that the 76-year-old woman's son died 10 days before she notified them of his death.

Bestselling author Greg Mitchell debates Hudson Institute senior fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs.

No single human being should be able to wield moral culpability for an action that could lead to millions of lives lost.

Polling showing more and more of the U.S. population disapproving of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bomb have become the basis for a generational narrative that obscures the long history of debate around the necessity of the carnage.

For 75 years and counting, the courage of the Hibakusha kept the worst and most destructive instincts of world leaders at bay.

The vast majority of the Japanese city's hospitals were also rendered non-functioning by the nuclear bomb.

"All those people that were going to be killed? I was praying for them," Lawrence Johnston said at the time.

The intensity of the Beirut explosion is thought to be around 10 percent of the intensity of the Hiroshima bomb.

My grandfather, Dr. Ken Takeuchi, was the director of the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. On August 4, 1945, he had talked to staff and encouraged them to arrive at work earlier. At 8.15am on August 6, when the atomic bomb hit, many staff were inside the hospital—his pep talk had saved lives.

Some thought A-bomb survivors "had the blood of the devil," according to one Hiroshima resident.

75 years ago, the world's first nuclear bomb was dropped. How did it change the nature of conflict, how do we now view the use of nuclear weapons and what will determine their use in the future?

On one occasion, asked how long it took him to decide to use the new device, he simply snapped his fingers.

The U.S. became the first, and to this day only, nation in the world to use a nuclear weapon against a foreign adversary on August 6, 1945.

It has been 75 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities, killing thousands of people.

The radiation effects on civilians were denied by officials and ignored in Hollywood renditions of the Manhattan projects—inaugurating a default of secrecy and "cover-ups" that has held sway ever since.

Scientists have used satellite data to determine the size of the bomb North Korea detonated in 2017. Results suggest it could have been twice as powerful as U.S. intelligence predicted at the time.

Orphans of the bomb share their stories 75 years on.

Atomic bombs, which devastated two Japanese cities, pale in comparison to the power of nuclear weapons today.

Now more than ever, they fear the threat of nuclear war.