History routinely affords illuminating insights on existential challenges which have confronted humanity. Apprehending that ...

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

Prayer is the most powerful means to bring peace to souls, to give them happiness, because it brings them closer to God’s love. … Only through prayer can o ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of our country dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A few days after the ...

The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...

Northeast Asia is the sole region of the world to have suffered the atrocity of nuclear warfare, and Koreans, alongside the Japanese, experienced its cataclysmic destruction.

As the world reflects on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, the connection between Nagasaki and Hanford remains significant.

Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city 80 years ago, with survivors determined to make their hometown the last place on earth hit by the bomb.

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...

Helfand’s International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, the same year the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was passed at the UN, much due ...

Survivors’ voices and new memorials mark the grim milestone. “This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a human issue,” says Dr. Ira Helfand—as global stockpiles grow for the first time since the Cold War.