After the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, Japan remained defiant. But two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and a day after that, Fat Man exploded over Nagasaki.

President Obama laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday. It was a historic visit, the first of a sitting U.S. president to either Hiroshima or Nagasaki since the end of the Pacific ...

Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be gone,” he said. “We all share a strong determination that we should never let anyone else become hibakusha and feel this pain.

Hiroshima gets all the attention, but Nagasaki teaches the more important lesson. The need to destroy Hiroshima will be forever debated, but the counterarguments were unpersuasive to President ...

That doesn’t mean that, once old enough to contemplate such things, I supported the decision to drop those atom bombs -- “Little Boy” on Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945, and “Fat Man” on Nagasaki ...

Nagasaki was attacked three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, in which 140,000 people were killed or died within months. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.

Nagasaki cathedral blesses a bell that replaces one destroyed by the US atomic bomb The U.S. bomb that was dropped Aug. 9, 1945, fell near the cathedral, killing two priests and 24 followers ...

In Hiroshima, the pope met with bomb survivors and spoke vividly of the “black hole of death and destruction” that atomic weapons could cause. Earlier, in a somber address in Nagasaki ...

We bombed Hiroshima, Nagasaki 75 years ago. Today, nuclear war still menaces. It is much more difficult to develop, negotiate, ratify and implement new nuclear reduction agreements than it is to ...