NAGASAKI, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing, as the mayor warned that current global conflicts ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

NAGASAKI – Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city’s atomic bombing, as the mayor warned that current global conflicts could push the ...

While the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped hasten the end of World War II in 1945, they also unleashed devastation so horrific that the weapon has not been used in warfare since. On ...

The United States will not send an ambassador to Nagasaki, Japan, for its World War II commemoration on Aug. 9 of the 1945 atomic bombing because Israel was not invited. The city’s mayor, Shiro Suzuki ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...

The first atomic bomb was dropped on the western city of Hiroshima by the US bomber Enola Gay, nicknamed "Little Boy" - Copyright AFP/File - The first atomic bomb was ...

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Israel will not be invited to this year’s peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki to promote a “peaceful and somber atmosphere” at the August 9 event, the city’s mayor told ...

KOYAGI – Dozens of relatives of former Dutch prisoners of war who suffered abuse and starvation during their captivity in one of Japan's largest World War II prison camps visited on Saturday the site ...

Doves are released over the Peace Statue in Nagasaki during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Saturday in Japan. (Kotaro Ueda/Kyodo News via AP) Kotaro Ueda / AP ...