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 ...

On the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, peace activists representing faith-based and secular ...

Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 ...

For the first time, Taiwanese representatives have attended events memorializing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should—Or Should They Have to Face the Consequences?

Nagasaki—Twin cathedral bells rang in unison Saturday in Japan’s Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the ...

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.

Mr. Gurudevan wants to see his generation take to the streets and push through antinuclear legislation across the United States like the nuclear freeze movement did decades earlier. On June 12, 1982, ...

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 ...