US President Donald Trump has repeatedly pressed allies, including Japan, to step in as tensions escalate in the Middle East.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

:: Visitors lined up to pay respects to the estimated 140,000 people who died as a result “It’s horrible to see that all those people were bombed, and to hear all these stories. We have to do ...

Religious sisters and others pray during Mass on Aug. 6 at the World Peace Memorial Cathedral in Hiroshima, Japan, for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing. The Mass was part of a "Pilgrimage of ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — For more than half a century, chimes have rung out across the Japanese city of Hiroshima every morning at exactly 8:15. The solemn ritual marks the precise moment Aug. 6, 1945, when ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Eighty years ago today, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Hiroshima on ...

The case of the two bombings is more nuanced than many Americans are led to believe.