As global tensions rise, a horrifying simulation paints a vivid picture of the devastation wrought by a nuclear explosion, ...

The world changed forever on Aug. 6, 1945. Toward the end of World War II, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima—the first time a nuclear bomb had ever been used in ...

Japanese anime remembers the atom bomb, decades after Hiroshima The trauma resurfaces in movies, shows, and comics over and over, showing its deep impression on Japanese families and culture. By ...

At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film Akira, a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds ...

Hiroshima resident Hidenobu Fukumoto was astonished when he learned there was once a plan to build a nuclear power plant in his hometown, the first city devastated by a nuclear bomb.