When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, ...

The official trailer for Charles Pellegrino’s book “Ghosts of Hiroshima” is here. The non-fiction title is due out on Aug. 5 ...

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged the U.S.

On August 6 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan's Hiroshima. Three days later, it dropped the second and ...

A photograph that has spread on Reddit and Facebook for years allegedly showed a bonsai tree that survived the United States' ...

VLADIMIR Putin has defied Donald Trump’s ultimatum and unleashed a fresh blitz on Ukraine. The bombing came just hours after ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it has been "an honour" to visit Hiroshima. He told Japanese journalists: "I'm here first and foremost to remember, and to again sympathise on behalf of the Irish ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin ended his four-day trip to Japan on Friday with a visit to Hiroshima, meeting a survivor of the atomic bomb attack by the US on the city 80 years ago. Mr Martin said that ...

The Taoiseach travelled to Hiroshima today to lay a wreath at the cenotaph and to ring the Peace Bell at the site, and while it was a sombre place, there were light moments that reminded him that ...

Mr Martin meets the mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui and lays a wreath at the city’s Peace Memorial Park cenotaph.

The ashes of about 70,000 victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in August 1945 in the closing days of World War II ...

A few days later, on August 9, 1945, Bockscar flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atom bomb, Fat Man. The devastation killed thousands more and destroyed a substantial part of the city. These ...