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, ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...

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Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...

The Mayor of Nagasaki Shiro Suzuki made a plea for world peace during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic ...

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 ...

At the end of a week in which the news from Gaza and the West Bank was increasingly grim, and there was the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many ...

Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

At 11.04 yesterday morning, a bell rang for the first time in 80 years, at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki. The church was at the epicentre of the atomic bomb blast at that time on 9 August 1945. A Mass ...

NEVER use nuclear weapons again, or we’re finished,” 93-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki bombing Hiroshi Nishioka said at ...

Taiwan's representative to Japan says China is behind a snub in which Taiwanese delegates to a Nagasaki atomic bombing memorial were seated in the NGO section.