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

Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the ...

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 ...

NAGASAKI, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the ...

As Nagasaki marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic attack, survivors express enduring hope for a nuclear ban.

As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a local leader is calling for global action and warns that the world could see this devasation again.

The smell of burning flesh, unrecognisable bodies. More than 200,000 dead. Have we forgotten the sheer horror of August 1945?

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 ...