At the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, Catholic peace groups gathered in Washington, DC, to remember the victims, support survivors and call for an end to nuclear weapons.

Serving this time as a weather scout on Special Bombing Mission No. 16, the American aircraft spotted mostly clear skies above the city targeted for the second successive nuclear punch that the United ...

At least 2 people are likely dead and scores still missing after landslides and flooding hit southwest Japan after torrential rain.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged residents to "prioritise actions to save your lives" as heavy rainfall triggered ...

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

Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary ...

A nuclear winter - a feared scenario following a nuclear war - 'would cause an unfathomable loss of life' numbering billions ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...

A Japanese media organisation – citing people familiar with the matter – says a new location within Kanagawa prefecture, has ...