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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

Helfand’s International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, the same year the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was passed at the UN, much due ...

Survivors’ voices and new memorials mark the grim milestone. “This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a human issue,” says Dr. Ira Helfand—as global stockpiles grow for the first time since the Cold War.

Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...

Allied forces killed over 1.2 million German civilians in World War II bombings and ground attacks on German cities. In ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...