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 ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. When Kikuyo Nakamura’s adult son ...
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...
Half a world apart, the Tri-Cities in Washington and Nagasaki in Japan are linked forever by the birth of the Atomic Age. In the community that became the Tri-Cities, workers raced during World War II ...
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 ...
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America Had to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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 ...
Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing nearly 200,000 people. Months before, U.S. bombers obliterated ...
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