Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the ...

BBC science reporter Esme Stallard explains why today there is no trace of radiation from the atomic explosions in 1945.

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 ...

The smell of burning flesh, unrecognisable bodies. More than 200,000 dead. Have we forgotten the sheer horror of August 1945?

Two names have become synonymous with the devastation of nuclear weapson - Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States bombed ...

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 ...

That was the reaction of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard after returning from a June visit to Japan. August 6 ...

America's incinerating of civilians in the atom bombs of 1945. Was that war, or war crime? asks Rosita Sweetman ...

The bomb hasn't been used since 1945, apart from test blasts, and after the Cold War ended in 1991, the risk of nuclear war ...

Eighty years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aging survivors — some more than 100 years old — reveal the ...

A total of 170 trees survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Since 2011, a nonprofit organization has been ...