Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.

Worthing Peace Group has marked Nagasaki Day by hanging 80 peace cranes on the Worthing Peace Tree. The symbolic moment of reflection followed a gathering in Homefield Park on August 9 to mark the ...

In the second part of our commemorative stories leading up to VJ Day, we are grateful to Cara, from RAF St Mawgan for her great uncle’s story. Royal Naval Petty Officer and builder’s son, Tom Humphrey ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington likened the current moment to the era of profound reflection in Catholic circles after the Second World War that led to ...

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 ...

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 United States launched the Nagasaki attack on August 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after ...

Some 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki in the US bombing in 1945, three days after Hiroshima. As the town’s mayor, Shiro Suzuki, calls to "stop armed conflicts immediately".View on euronews ...

The American nuclear bomb attack on the Japanese city on 9 August 1945 killed around 70,000 people and left many more physically and psychologically scarred for life. In a ceremony, survivors and ...

The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on August 9 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the ...