On Wednesday, residents of Hiroshima will pause to remember the day — exactly 80 years ago — that changed the course of history. The device that exploded over Hiroshima destroyed about two-thirds of ...

Museums don't just preserve history; they frame how it's told. In Hiroshima, where that responsibility carries unusual weight ...

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during his historic visit to the ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Shigeaki Mori was 8 years old when he survived the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. attack, only one and a half miles away from the blast.

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He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s ...