On Aug. 9, 1945, U.S. forces detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki. Shiroyama Elementary School was only 500 meters (1,600 ...

Japanese survivors of the US atomic bombings ... as this year marks the 80th anniversary of the nuclear attacks, Jiji Press reported Monday. Japan's Welfare Ministry this month launched a ...

SURVIVORS of the atomic bomb have urged Japan to attend a United Nations conference on a treaty banning nuclear weapons, which opened in New York today, after the Pacific nation said it would not ...

Organizers said it brought together those affected by nuclear devastation to ensure history is never forgotten.Among the speakers was 92-year-old Park Jung-soon, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing.

Takeshi Yamakawa, a "hibakusha" A-Bomb survivor ... spread and use of nuclear weapons. ...with a strong culture of remembrance and continued commitment, new generations in Japan are carrying ...

Severely disfigured when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan ... organization of atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. On the morning of ...

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Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, pleading for the abolition of nuclear weapons ... He was upstairs reading a book when the A-bomb ...

A survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki nuclear blast has accepted this year’s Nobel Peace ... “I was lying down reading a book and then suddenly there was just light everywhere. Everything was completely ...

Japan’s leading group of atomic bomb survivors, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Tuesday, with the organisation hoping the achievement will energise the movement for nuclear abolition ...

He was upstairs reading a book when the A-bomb was dropped. Portraits of the survivors ... "Today's nuclear weapons ... have far greater destructive power than the two bombs used against Japan ...

Terumi Tanaka, one of a diminishing number of survivors of the US attacks on Japan in August 1945, said the use of nuclear weapons ... “I was lying down reading a book and then suddenly there ...