Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While not dismissing the moral questions that attend “gunboat diplomacy,” we can appreciate that Perry supported and eventually ...

HIROSHIMA (Reuters) - Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion ...

Pt. 1. Historical narrative. The debate over Hiroshima ; Building the atomic bomb ; The Pacific war ; The decision to drop the bomb ; The Japanese government, Ketsu-Go, and Potsdam ; Hiroshima, ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

To the editor: Acknowledging that the war crimes of imperial Japan were informed by a ruthlessness akin to Nazi Germany does not explain (or justify) the choice of densely populated cities as targets ...