1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Days later Japan surrendered. Around 140,000 people died in ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer at a meeting in March of signatories to the U.N. nuclear ban treaty. During ...

But critics protested that citizens who have long opposed warfare and nuclear weaponry in various way were alike barred from the site this year. Hiroshima officials distributed a questionnaire to ...

receives from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, left, a letter of request from a nongovernmental group consisting of heads of municipalities in Japan and abroad pressing to rid the world of nuclear ...