A former accommodation facility for a U.S. atomic bomb radiation effects survey team quietly sits on Hijiyama, a small hill ...

Health effects of Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombs not as dire as thought The death and destruction caused by the United States' use of nuclear weapons in World War II was massive, but the long-term ...

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare.

Japan’s Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Wednesday encouraged President Trump to visit the city to understand the impact of nuclear warfare after the leader compared the U.S. strikes on Iran to the ...

The United Nations has established a panel to examine what impact a nuclear war would have. One of the members is a Japanese ...

For those who were in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 it is a fear they live with constantly. This is not history for them. It is an everyday concern. Keiko Ogura was a little girl living in the suburbs of ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

On August 6, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, residents will pause to remember the day in 1945 that changed the course of history.

Author and historian Greg Mitchell discussed a collection of films from the U.S. National Archives documenting the aftermath of the atomic bombs of August, 1945. Some of the films were shot by ...