Eighty years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the city has transformed. The bombing immediately killed 80,000 people and destroyed 70% of the city's buildings. Today, Hiroshima is a ...

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 ...

Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Wednesday to mark 80 years since an atomic bomb levelled the Japanese city. Some 78,000 people were killed instantly when the United States ...

Setsuko Thurlow, 93, recalled the horror of the atomic bomb falling on Hiroshima as Japan marks the 80th anniversary . NBC News Janis Mackey Frayer reports from ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighty years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the city has transformed. The bombing immediately killed 80,000 ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Exactly 80 years since an atomic bomb was used in war for the first time, thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Wednesday, as the city's mayor ...