Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a warning written in fire ...

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...

PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.

As we commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world is the closest ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.

Dozens of people — including peace activists, members of faith groups, and musicians — gathered on Wednesday to raise alarm ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.