Although the atomic bomb hasn't been used in war since it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of its ...

The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

Why do these animals called humans like war so much?’ asked Nobel Peace Prize winner and Hiroshima survivor Toshiyuki Mimaki, ...

Nagasaki marked the 80th anniversary of the United States' atomic attack on the Japanese city with twin cathedral bells ...

In the week marking the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Russia announced it no longer ...

Eighty years ago today, the innocent ways of the world, or as innocent as they could be, blew up. At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, ...

On 6 August 1945, a single atomic bomb turned Hiroshima into a scene of horrifying devastation. Eight decades later, over ...

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

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 ...

Few survived the nuclear bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Keiko Ogura lived, to tell a grim tale.

Today marks 80 years since the first use of a nuclear weapon during wartime — the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Also ...