that Japan had the know-how, if not the intention, to develop nuclear weapons for defensive purposes. What would it mean if the only country to experience the horrors of a nuclear attack lost sight of ...

The Atomic Bomb Dome is now part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, but at one time the structure stood in the middle of a thriving commercial and residential area that was home to 400 or so ...

Hiroshima's most famous ruin from the bomb is the dome in the ... had surrendered in May 1945, Japan continued the war in Asia. The US hoped that dropping a nuclear bomb - after Japan rejected ...

On 6 August 1945, a US bomber dropped the uranium bomb above the city, killing around 140,000 people. Three days later a second nuclear weapon was dropped on Nagasaki. Two weeks later Japan ...