For five days, the survivors of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis were left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters.

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence ...

NAGASAKI -- An 86-year-old local Japanese atomic bomb survivor who once spoke to students in Tehran, Iran, was watching ...

Shigeaki Mori was 8 years old when he survived the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. attack, only one and a half miles away from the blast.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

The evolution of air power transformed warfare from a conflict fought at the front lines into one that could reach deep into ...