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

A congregation from a church in West Lothian paid tribute to the fallen as they commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

(We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History! You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database . By ...

The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the United States atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing mem ...