Exhibition offers vivid picture of Hiroshima after atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA--A special exhibition is being held to showcase images and videos documenting this western city’s destruction from ...
Orange County Register

She survived the bombing of Hiroshima. Decades later, she’s sharing her story.

Kikuko (Kiko) Otake was only 5 years old during the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on Aug. 6 and on Aug. 9 of 1945. For years afterward, she kept the horrific memory of ...
AOL

19 Historical Photos That Capture the Devastation and Aftermath of Hiroshima in 1945

On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima became the first target of an atomic bomb in human history. In a single instant, a thriving city was reduced to ruins, and tens of thousands of lives were lost ...
The Washington Post

The last witnesses of the Hiroshima bombing speak out

An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. (Stanley Troutman/AP) Review by Karin Tanabe When visitors step inside the ...
Time

Web Guide: Hiroshima, 60 Years Later

After the atomic bomb was droppped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, historians and survivors, alike, have collected information on the bomb’s destruction and future impact. The modern city of Hiroshima ...
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 ...

Keith Haring’s landmark visit to Hiroshima focus of retrospective

U.S. pop artist Keith Haring visited Hiroshima during the Cold War when the threat of nuclear Armageddon was high.