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In August 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people, overwhelmingly civilians. Eighty years on from this slaughter – which the then US army commander and later president Dwight D. Eisenhower called “completely unnecessary” – is an apt…

August 15 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

VJ Day on August 15 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

This year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and other cities. Across Asia and the Pacific, Japan’s bid to create a Greater East…

Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare. Now, 80 years later, they are passing their memories to the next generation through a project designed to…

Some 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki in the US bombing in 1945, three days after Hiroshima. As the town’s mayor, Shiro Suzuki, calls to "stop armed conflicts immediately".

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary photos of one survivor of the attack.

Twin cathedral bells rang in unison Saturday in Japan's Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment the atrocity took place.