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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...

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 ...