Unfortunately, both later died from radiation sickness. Of all the prisoners held in Hiroshima, only two members of the "Lonesome Lady"—Sergeant Bill Abel and Second Lieutenant Cartwright ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

The first is dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, a second is dropped three days later on Nagasaki. Together, the two bombs kill over 130,000 people and kill thousands more from radiation poisoning ...

Hiroshima had already been woken by several ... Tens of thousands more later died of radiation sickness and injuries. The Enola Gay was 10 miles away when the blast went off, but still felt ...