This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a warning written in fire ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

As the number of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors decreases, Japan's Legacy Successor Programme trains volunteers ...

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

This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...

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

In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space ...

PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.

Dozens of people — including peace activists, members of faith groups, and musicians — gathered on Wednesday to raise alarm ...