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An atomic cloud billows above Hiroshima city following the explosion of the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare in Hiroshima, in this handout photo taken by the U.S. Army on August 6, 1945, and distributed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

ArticleFive things your class should know on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombingWorld War II, Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), August 1945, Japan.

The Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath ultimately claimed about 140,000 lives, helping to draw to a close the deadliest conflict in history and, for better or worse, usher in the atomic age. “It is our mission to convey to the world and to the coming generations the...

Tens of thousands of people stood for a minute of silence at 8:15 a.m.at a ceremony in Hiroshima’s peace park near the epicenter of the 1945 attack, marking the moment of the blast.

Mr. Abe said Japan would continue to push for a world without nuclear weapons and reaffirmed his commitment to what Tokyo calls the “three nonnuclear principles”-that it won’t possess or make nuclear weapons and won’t introduce them on Japanese territory”.

Abe repeated on Thursday, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, that he upheld previous statements on the war, which include a 1995 “heartfelt apology” by then-premier Tomiichi Murayama.

By the end of the year, 140,000, including tens of thousands of Koreans and other non-Japanese, had died because of the bombing and its after-effects.

Tensions over the South China Sea have dominated talks this week in the Malaysian capital, where Asean foreign ministers have also met their counterparts from various countries, including China and the United States.

Eugene Hoshiko/AP Sumiteru Taniguchi was a teen riding a bicycle when an atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, 70 years ago. She read a poem for people who attended a memorial ceremony at city hall this afternoon.

If only he could tell us exactly what kind of Iron Dome he plans to provide us with at the moment that Iran’s breakout time – as he said in a radio interview a few months ago – reaches almost zero, in “year 13, 14, 15” of the dea...

Tensions came to the fore at the ongoing East Asia and Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Malaysia, with countries including USA, India, Japan and Australia expressing deep concern over China’s territorial claim and creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea...

A report carried by CBS News last year claimed that US President Barack Obama’s administration had pressured Israel to stop carrying out assassinations inside Iran against its nuclear scientists. Most Middle Eastern countries harbor bitter resentment over Iran’s ever...

“The overall situation in the South China Sea is stable and there is no possibility of major conflict”, said a statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry early yesterday morning.

Three days later, Gackenbach flew over the city of Kokura in support of dropping the second atomic bomb.

“It carries the threat of nuclear weapons development, and as the 2011 Fukushima disaster demonstrated to the world, nuclear energy is neither safe, nor clean”, said Junichi. “It is our responsibility, and it is our duty”.