A pall of smoke lingers over this scene of destruction in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 7, 1945, a day after the explosion of the atomic bomb.

Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzai questioned the growing calls for reinforced nuclear deterrence around the world, including in Japan, since Russia invaded Ukraine and warned of possible nuclear ...

I think that’s why I was so scared,” says Terao, now 82. These nightmarish memories are of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The young Terao had just survived the world’s first nuclear ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — For nearly 70 years, until he turned 85, Lee Jong-keun hid his past as an atomic bomb survivor, fearful of the widespread discrimination against blast victims that has long ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, in Hiroshima ...

A Japanese man and woman, victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, sit in a damaged bank building converted into a hospital near the center of the town in Japan on Aug. 6, 1945.

HIROSHIMA, Japan — The atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima 75 years ago didn’t just kill and maim. The survivors have also lived for decades with lingering shame, anger and fear.

HIROSHIMA, Japan – The host city of the annual Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting that ends Monday has been reborn seven decades after Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic bomb in 1945.

HIROSHIMA, Japan -- Convinced that the time for this moment is right at last, President Obama on Friday became the first sitting American president to confront the historic and haunted ground of ...

They are known as hibakusha — survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 and another bomb dropped on the coastal city of Nagasaki three days later.