The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

The world’s nuclear arsenals are comprised mainly of two types of warheads — atomic bombs, also called A-bombs, and the more powerful hydrogen or H-bombs. North Korea, escalating its war of rhetoric ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. TO THE JAPANESE ...

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi prompted outrage among atomic bomb survivors and leaders of the areas devastated by the bombings by urging the nation to discuss nuclear weapons “without taboos.” His ...

Japan says it’s time for ‘taboo-free’ discussions about acquiring nuclear weapons - Defence minister says non-nuclear principles should be revisited given the current global security ‘crisis’ ...

After the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Godzilla was how the Japanese people expressed their fear of radiation and ...

NAGASAKI -- An 86-year-old local Japanese atomic bomb survivor who once spoke to students in Tehran, Iran, was watching images of the city under attack, fearing the children he met there 19 years ago ...