How close was Germany to developing an atomic bomb in World War 2? Learn the story of the secret commando raid to destroy Germany's Heavy Water facility. Just why was Germany so interested in the ...

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.

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

The cities will celebrate their 'sister city' relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan.

The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...

Devon poet Clare Bryden has written a moving piece for the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, honouring atomic bomb victims and ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

HIROSHIMA: Crown Princess Kiko and her second daughter Princess Kako placed flowers at the Cenotaph for the Victims of the ...

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial. Military historians will host a ...

For 80 years, since the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has stood at the brink of nuclear war with the potential for catastrophic loss, threatening ...