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

In the heavy summer heat, cicadas shrilled, the Peace Bell rang and hundreds of doves were released into the sky.

Tens of thousands were injured and died later. The second bomb, “Fat Man”, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.

He promised that Japan would continue to abide by its long-held principles: not producing, possessing or allowing nuclear weapons on Japanese territory.

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.

As the only country to have experienced nuclear bombs – Nagasaki was attacked three days later – Japan has a special duty to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons, Abe told the audience after a minute’s silence. On that day in 1945, the US Air Force...

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.

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) – A ceremony is underway Sunday morning in Nagasaki to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the southern Japanese city. The legislation would ease constitutional limits that restrict the military to self-defence, allowing Japanese forces...

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.

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.

In a tiny restaurant in Hiroshima, they serve a dish that originated 68 years ago.

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