Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in Nagasaki, while hundreds of thousands ... Even though Yamawaki survived the heat and blast of the explosion, he could not escape the effects of the radiation.

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

Immediately after the Nagasaki bombing, at the fortress headquarters 3.5km [2.2 miles] from the hypocenter, an air defense guard was hit by a flash of the explosion as he climbed down the ladder ...

But when she miscarried the couple’s first child, her mother-in-law blamed it on her being from Nagasaki. She would not share her accounts about living through the explosion and the hellish ...

A photo taken about six miles from the scene of the Nagasaki explosion. According to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, photographer Hiromichi Matsuda took this 15 minutes after the attack.

(Kyodo) MAEBASHI (Kyodo) -- A 95-year-old atomic bomb survivor who lost five family members in the 1945 Nagasaki blast is ... blew with the sound of a loud explosion. "I didn't know what had ...

Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the end of World War II. No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the ...

Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the end of World War II. No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the intense light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of ...

Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the end of the Second World War. No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since ...