A POWERFUL nuclear weapon that’s 24 times stronger than the bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima is ...

U.S. planes dropped about 60 million leaflets ... had opportunistically attacked Japan on the very day of the Nagasaki bombing. By cutting short the Soviet invasion, the bombings saved not only ...

A woman who survived the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki recently chose to come ... her house collapsed soon after she saw three US aircraft in the sky. She was rescued from the rubble ...

Decades of jungle growth stripped away and multiple runways restored on abandoned airfield in the strategic second island ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93.

Ari Beser, the grandson of the only U.S. crewman to fly on both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing runs, is on a quest for nuclear disarmament, one that has led him to Japan — and to face-to ...

In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families ...

The rainfall data is based on two documents: records of interviews conducted in the 1950s by the U.S. Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) with around 40,000 Nagasaki residents and testimonials ...

Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed in the explosions and countless others were disfigured ...