More than six decades after the war ended ... 9, 1945, the U.S. military dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Kazuyuki was working at an elementary school about 500 meters from ...

Originally, the Americans targeted the city of Kokura, but decided to drop the bomb on Nagasaki after cloud cover over Kokura blocked the pilots' vision. Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in ...

based on the accounts of people who grew up at an orphanage in Nagasaki shortly after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb blast 77 years ago. “My heart is aching because the situation of ...

Reiko Hada was nine years old when the bomb exploded in Nagasaki. In an interview with ... nearby river and scooped water to let them drink. "After drinking a sip of water, they died.

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...

One, two, three... 88-yearold atomic bomb survivor Takeshi Yamakawa climbs the 76 steps from Nagasaki Hypocenter Park, taking a breath aft･･･ ...

A photo dated September 1945 of the remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building after the nuclear ... movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as ...

The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killed 70,000 people, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima killed 140,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945 ...

André Schram in Nagasaki. When Johan died ... He explained that his father was released after the bomb was dropped, so it is possible he would never have been born without that event.

After the dropping of a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, he has ordered Japan’s surrender. Despite two devastating attacks on the country, many people are shocked – the Japanese ...

Mr Fukahori was 14 when the US dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killing tens of thousands of people, including his family. That came three days after the nuclear attack on Hiroshima ...