On a warm summer morning above Hiroshima, Japan, an atomic bomb was for the first time dropped on a target as an act of war. The date was August 6, 1945. Less than a minute after the bomb was released, Hiroshima nearly disappeared in a brilliant cloud...

Hiroshima is a beautiful modern city located near the southwestern tip of the main Japanese island of Honshu. It had been a military center with the headquarters of the Japanese southern army and a military depot prior to the end of World War II. The...

The Japanese city of Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi?) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest of Japan's islands. It is most known throughout the world as the first city...

Hiroshima, revisited By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Wednesday, August 6, 2003 Today marks the anniversary of one of the most morally contentious events of the 20th century: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. After 58 years, there's an emerging consensus: We Americans have...

WE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE THE FRUITS OF WAR. JAPAN, TOO, WITH COLONIZATION POLICIES AND WARS OF AGGRESSION INFLICTED INCALCULABLE AND IRREVERSIBLE HARM ON THE PEOPLES OF MANY COUNTRIES. . . . WE MUST LEARN THE LESSONS OF HISTORY, THAT WE...

Sixty-two years later, the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima still holds such a grip on Japan that its defense minister has had to resign simply for suggesting the attack was "unavoidable."Now, in a sign of changing times, the task of spreading Hiroshima's message...

A book review on John Hersey's book Hiroshima, a first-hand account of the lives of six residents of Hiroshima following the nuclear bombing during World War II.