Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another fell on the city of Nagasaki. Between 120,000 and 220,000 people died in the ...

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 ...

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The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

While the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dominate historical memory, they were only part of a broader and escalating campaign that brought Japan to surrender. The sustained naval ...

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 ...

The pitching staff that led the Ducks to a Women’s College World Series appearance last season remains largely intact in 2026, with promising... The rankings are in. Oregon acrobatics and tumbling ...

Portrait of Beser posing in front of the Enola Gay. On the Lufthansa Airlines cover displayed here, Jacob Herschel Beser has handwritten what constitutes a complete and definitive statement of his ...