The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...

T he United Nations declared September 26 to be the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Despite the international body’s ambition to end the stain of nuclear weaponry, they ...

Members and supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) gathered on the Millennium Bridge over the River Lune to ...

Worthing Peace Group has marked Nagasaki Day by hanging 80 peace cranes on the Worthing Peace Tree. The symbolic moment of reflection followed a gathering in Homefield Park on August 9 to mark the ...

Japan faces with growing urgency the question of how to carry forward the moral voice for ridding the world of nuclear ...

The 80th anniversaries of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide an instructive moment for Russian ...

Northeast Asia is the sole region of the world to have suffered the atrocity of nuclear warfare, and Koreans, alongside the Japanese, experienced its cataclysmic destruction.

Flag-waving hyper-nationalists in America – and other places – conveniently forget the threat of nuclear war, and have become increasingly chauvinistic and escapist.

Iain McGregor's new book revisits the events that led to the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings and a slim volume brings together ...

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...

For Archbishop Wester, the issue is close to home. Located within his archdiocese is the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he noted ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington likened the current moment to the era of profound reflection in Catholic circles after the Second World War that led to ...