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

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that ...

Treated as outcasts for decades, these survivors and their children are now speaking out against global nuclear rearmament.

The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on Aug. 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the ...

At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...

When “Little Boy” detonated above the Japanese city, 80,000 people died instantly. The flash, brighter than the sun, transformed Hiroshima into the world’s first nuclear battlefield. Tens of thousands ...

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

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

Few survived the nuclear bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Keiko Ogura lived, to tell a grim tale.

This is a condensed version of a 1992 article based on an interview with Ted Van Kirk, of Northumberland, the navigator of the Enola Gay, who died in 2014. The article originally appeared in The Daily ...

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