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

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

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 story of the Atomic Age's start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its consequences. In ...

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

Israel has decided to seize control of Gaza City despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing increasing pressure to end ...

World War II ended 80 years ago when Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here's how Cincinnati reacted.

Eighty years have passed, and yet no instrument of war has emerged as absolute, as unrelenting, or as exquisitely engineered for annihilation as the nuclear weapon. Its shadow has loomed over ...

As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

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 ...