A U.S. project has completed work on a new bell to be donated to Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki to replace one that was ...

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Gushiken Takamatsu said Curtis LeMay, who orchestrated the firebombing, should never have been given the honour.

The bomb was never found, and it contained a substantial amount of natural uranium plus 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of high explosives. According to the U.S. Air Force, the bomb didn’t contain the ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

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A million others became homeless. The death toll exceeds those killed in the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki. But the Tokyo firebombing has been largely eclipsed by the two atomic bombings.

SEOUL, South Korea — The number of people injured when South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped bombs on a civilian area has increased to 29 from 15, the National Defense Ministry said Friday.

More civilians died than in the British and American saturation bombing of Hamburg (June 1943) and Dresden (February 1945)—more, even, than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki on the day of their catastrophes.

Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March 9 and 10, 1945, was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.