The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its ...

Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...

Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She ...

The head of the island’s economic office attended commemorations in Japan for the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

At the Nagasaki peace conference, joined by representatives from 138 cities in 16 countries, discussions were held on ...

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." – Albert Einstein Eighty years have passed since the twin horrors ...

A nuclear winter - a feared scenario following a nuclear war - 'would cause an unfathomable loss of life' numbering billions ...

NEVER use nuclear weapons again, or we’re finished,” 93-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki bombing Hiroshi Nishioka said at ...

Allied forces killed over 1.2 million German civilians in World War II bombings and ground attacks on German cities. In ...