The Mainichi Shimbun answers common questions readers may have about the air raids conducted by the United States across Japan during World War II ... Q: Why did the U.S. military bomb civilians ...

For four years, America has been at war with Japan ... the bomb will be dropped on August 6. Estimated take off time 02.45. Meanwhile, President Truman is on the USS Augusta, a US navy cruiser ...

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on August 6 and 9, 1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Days later Japan surrendered ... followed by Joe ...

At best this would have been far less destructive than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Rather it is ... and the German declaration of war against the United States, the war had become one ...

Many delayed detonation bombs dropped on Japan by U.S. forces during the war were set to explode between an hour to six days after hitting the ground. When such a bomb is dropped, the wind ...

In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US ... bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to ...

the United States dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos from 1964 to 1973 ‒ more than were dropped on Germany and Japan combined during World War II. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY ...

A Japanese court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison, according to local me ...

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on August 6 and 9, 1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Days later Japan ... Trump did not make the ...