Many Japanese whose lives were profoundly touched by Pope Francis mourned the pontiff's passing on April 21 at the age of 88.

Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have embarked on a global voyage aboard the Peace Boat to appeal ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration said development for a bomb 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima is ahead of schedule.

Once protected by its nuclear umbrella, America’s closest allies are now threatened by it and contemplating their own nuclear ...

The death of Pope Francis was mourned across Japan on Monday by those who had met him during his 2019 visit to the country, including survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and 2011 ...

Originally, the Americans targeted the city of Kokura, but decided to drop the bomb on Nagasaki after cloud cover over Kokura blocked the pilots' vision. Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in ...

The B61-13, therefore, would also be 14 times more powerful than the 25-kiloton bomb dropped on Nagasaki ... The statement comes a day after President Donald Trump's nominee for NNSA ...

The tiny Pacific island of Tinian was once used to cause the most devastating blast in human history. Now its 80-year-old ...

NAGASAKI--This year’s Nagasaki Peace Declaration began with a long quote by a late Catholic monk who was orphaned after the atomic bomb was dropped on this city on Aug. 9, 1945. Tomei Ozaki died ...

It was the night of August 9, 1945, merely hours after the US had unleashed the second atomic bomb on top of the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Trump’s biggest round of tariffs is coming next week.

The policy of every American president since Harry S Truman , who made the decision to use the A-bomb against Japan, has been ...