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Japan marks 80th anniversary of atomic bombing in Hiroshima

As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

As Hiroshima marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing, survivor says "nuclear weapons and humanity cannot co-exist"

The United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II.

Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing as aging survivors worry about growing nuke threat

HIROSHIMA, Japan -- Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese ...

On This Day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later an atomic bomb hit ...

Marking 80 years since U.S. dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic weapon of war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of ...

Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing

A silent prayer was held in Japan on Wednesday morning as it marked 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb ...

See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors

As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who did not live through them?

Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since atomic bomb

Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Wednesday, as the city's mayor warned world leaders about the nuclear warheads that still exist.