The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged U.S.

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering ...

It's been just about 80 years since President Truman told the nation, August 6, 1945... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HARRY S TRUMAN: A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on ...

In August of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan—the only time in history that nuclear weapons have been used in combat. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten-year-old Stanley Finch left the house to pick up his newspapers for his daily delivery of the Knoxville Journal. It was 1945.

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Director James Cameron plans to bring Charles Pellegrino’s book ‘Ghosts of Hiroshima’ to the screen. It may prove to be his greatest challenge yet. Eighty years after the world’s only nuclear attack, ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This month marked the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, helping bring an end to World War II. Myra Mansfield shares an excerpt of her ...