As we mark 80 years since the end of World War II, Hawaii News Now is taking a closer look at Hawaii’s unique bond with Japan ...

Avon, N.Y. — An annual event held in Livingston County Wednesday marks 80 years since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. The weapon killed 140,000 people in the ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

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 ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...

A Japanese atomic bomb survivors group that won the Nobel Peace Prize has strongly criticised US President Donald ...

Visitors walk under a sign marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack in World War II at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Visitors walk under a sign marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic ...

The Enquirer archives show the local reactions to the end of World War II. Paul Tibbets, the “Enola Gay” pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb, had been a pre-med student at the University of ...

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 06, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Eighty years ago, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and ...