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Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the a
At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare
The devastating attack on Japan’s capital set a terrible new precedent for aerial mass destruction
The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...
Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history
On the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan, Charles Harris looks back at the 14th Army’s extraordinary campaign and the remarkable characters who shaped it
