The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even ...

Determined to speak for herself, Teruko Yahata resolved to convey the cruelty and sorrow in her own words, in English, rather ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether ...

It's an unhappy picture, Homo sapiens being completely wiped out by its own technology as the little pests inherit the Earth, but is the possibility fact, or just science fiction? Long Live the ...

A scientist on the University of Chicago's Manhattan Project team stored radioactive waste from his other, peace-time ...

This past week marked two monumental but very different anniversaries — the surrender of Japan in World War 2 and the publication of George Orwell’s immensely powerful allegory, Animal Farm.

The Tsar Bomba, made by the Soviet Union in 1961, is the world's most powerful nuclear bomb. Its 50-megaton yield is 3,000 ...

Ogura, who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, when she was 8 years old, has ...

While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales interrupted their summer break to commemorate those who served in the Asia-Pacific 80 years ...

Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Prince and Princess of Wales, briefly interrupted their summer vacation on August 15 ...

Victory over Japan Day is marked each year on 15 August - the date in 1945 when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces and ...