Stars and Stripes

Hiroshima pauses in silence to mark 80 years since world’s first atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan — More than 55,000 people standing in Peace Memorial Park bowed their heads at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, marking with silence the precise moment that the U.S. military dropped an atomic ...
America Magazine

80 years after Hiroshima, the world still lives under threat of nuclear destruction

Religious sisters and others pray during Mass on Aug. 6 at the World Peace Memorial Cathedral in Hiroshima, Japan, for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing. The Mass was part of a "Pilgrimage of ...
New York Post

Eight decades after Hiroshima, nuclear weapons continue to haunt global politics — and ...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its immediate impact on World War II, it ushered in the nuclear age, forever ...
Salon

80 years after Hiroshima, the words “never again” ring hollow

On Aug. 6, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the ...
NPR

Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...
USA Today

In Hiroshima, a schoolboy keeps memories of war alive with guided tours

HIROSHIMA, Japan, July 31 (Reuters) - Since the age of seven, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with a mission ...
Newsweek

Hiroshima Mayor Issues Nuclear Bomb Warning to West

The world should abandon nuclear deterrence, the mayor of Hiroshima has said at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary since his city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb. Kazumi Matsui warned on ...
PBS

At 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, survivors fear lessons may be forgotten as ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Why Hiroshima Must Keep Being Commemorated

Nobody should ever say that it was a good call, but it was the only one a US President was likely to make in 1945. The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 80 years ago, was the ...
Des Moines Register

Hiroshima 80th anniversary: This Iowa pilot flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb

Roughly two hours before the United States bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets announced to his crew of the Enola Gay that they were carrying the "world's first atomic bomb." ...
PBS

Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard

Survivors of Hiroshima are reunited with their childhood drawings over 60 years later. Buried for decades deep inside a church in Washington DC, a collection of surprisingly joyful drawings, created ...