Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...

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

Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...

Iain McGregor's new book revisits the events that led to the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings and a slim volume brings together ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The candle float ceremony took place in Salisbury on August 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings.

Mayors from across the world concluded a general conference in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sunday by adopting ...