“Fat Man” was originally intended for a different Japanese city.

The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands ...

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

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

Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener sings with The Peaceabilities as Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance holds a peace vigil for 80th ...

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

If Japan had not marched toward war, ordinary people would not have suffered immense hardship. Yet, adequate compensation has ...

Japan’s foreign resident population stood at about 3.7 million at the end of last year, up 11 per cent from the previous year ...

At the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, Catholic peace groups gathered in Washington, DC, to remember the victims, ...

Police in Nagasaki have arrested a 24-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a young girl in an elevator at an apartment building in in February. According to police, Tsubasa ...

Singapore, Hong Kong, Imphal, Kohima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Names that will forever evoke images of the brutal war fought by the Allies against the Imperial Japanese Army in South East Asia. We ...