When “Little Boy” detonated above the Japanese city, 80,000 people died instantly. The flash, brighter than the sun, transformed Hiroshima into the world’s first nuclear battlefield. Tens of thousands ...

This is a condensed version of a 1992 article based on an interview with Ted Van Kirk, of Northumberland, the navigator of the Enola Gay, who died in 2014. The article originally appeared in The Daily ...

Eighty years have passed, and yet no instrument of war has emerged as absolute, as unrelenting, or as exquisitely engineered for annihilation as the nuclear weapon. Its shadow has loomed over ...

This 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not about commemorating a crime against humanity but chastising the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met privately in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump to make a case ...

As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a local leader is calling for global action and warns that the world could see this devasation again.

On August 9, 1945, clouds over Kokura forced a US bomber to switch to Nagasaki, where a sudden break in the sky led to a ...

They were always there to protect us when we were flying back to the carriers,’ said Jack Allen of Escondido, who flew F-8 ...

World War II ended 80 years ago when Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here's how Cincinnati reacted.

For years, they lived a block apart on McFarland Avenue east of Borah School. They died after long, productive lives — Jim, ...

Israel has decided to seize control of Gaza City despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing increasing pressure to end ...

Geoff Sterring, from Stockport, was a captive in a Japanese POW camp when he witnessed the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki ...