What happens when the witnesses are gone? In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a new generation is finding ways to carry atomic bomb memories forward ― through art, empathy and technology.

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

New START, and treaties like it, represent humanity’s uneasy attempt to coexist with its own capacity for destruction ...

The 80th anniversary of the devastating attack on Hiroshima was commemorated with survivors recalling their experiences. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Hiroshima, detailing the experiences ...

Atomic bombs and nuclear reactor accidents can all be very deadly, but why is Chernobyl still a ghost town after all these years in comparison to Hiroshima and Nagasaki where people live like nothing ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan – Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

While the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dominate historical memory, they were only part of a broader and ...

The crumbling brick and concrete walls of the Atomic Bomb Dome, as it is known today, rise above the Motoyasu River. The bomb so devastated Hiroshima that there are few other reminders of the city ...

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about. When President ...