As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary ...

The bombing of Hiroshima was a necessary evil to save lives and should remind us to always pursue the least-worst option when ...

Video. A noh play portraying the inner torment of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist behind the atomic bomb, was staged in ...

Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and ...

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

A Japanese Noh play about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the development of the nuclear bomb, was staged in ...

Remembrances in Japan, the United States and elsewhere this week mark the only use of atomic weapons in military conflict and ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

Hiroshima was bombed by the American military on Aug. 6, 1945, causing the deaths of about 140,000 residents by the end of ...