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Children, elderly survivors and delegates representing 100 countries were in the crowd with many placing flowers in front of the cenotaph at Peace Memorial Park, as doves were released into the air. Almost everything around it was incinerated by a wall of heat up to 4,000 degrees...

Norwegian People’s Aid, the labour movement’s humanitarian organisation for solidarity, has for many years been pushing the Norwegian politicians to take active, driving role in the fight to prohibit nuclear weapons.

On August 6, 1945, the US atomic bomb “Little Boy” detonated about 2,000 feet above Hiroshima killing around 140,000 people.

Bells tolled as a solemn crowd observed a moment of silence at 8.15am local time, when the detonation turned the western Japanese city into an inferno, killing thousands instantly and leaving others to die a slow death with terrible injuries.

On August 6, 1945, the US atomic bomb “Little Boy” detonated about 2,000 feet above Hiroshima killing around 140,000 people.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima yesterday to mark 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today over whether the total destruction it caused was justified.

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.

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.

More than 200,000 people died of nuclear radiation, shock waves from the blasts and thermal radiation resulting from bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and of Nagasaki three days later.

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”.

Thursday marks 70 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan.