A few days later, on August 9, 1945, Bockscar flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atom bomb, Fat Man. The devastation ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Nature suffers too. After the blast, a huge firestorm can start, fed by strong winds. It can burn for hours, using up all the ...

The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983 ...

Cristina Alivio shares the harrowing testimony of Katsuko Kuwamoto, a six-year-old survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945. Kuwamoto's account reveals the unimaginable suffering, hunger, ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin ended his four-day trip to Japan on Friday with a visit to Hiroshima, meeting a survivor of the ...

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

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it has been "an honour" to visit Hiroshima. He told Japanese journalists: "I'm here first ...