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.

In 1957, cameras captured something extraordinary: a 130,000-pound B-47 Stratojet bomber executing what appears to be an aerial backflip with a nuclear bomb. In the video, the massive aircraft streaks ...

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

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

John von Neumann stands as a towering figure in the annals of 20th-century science, distinguished by his profound ...

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...

Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir's nuclear threat from US soil signals more than bluster. It's a calculated move to play to ...

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, ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...

A U.S. military unit dropped dummy bombs in various parts of Japan as part of exercises aimed at training forces to gain the ...

(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 ...

Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...