This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow.

Mr Hilling, who joined the RAF in April 1944 before being transferred to the Army and serving in India in 1945 before his ...

Seeds from a tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester ahead of the 80th anniversary ...

BAE Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped "Little Boy", the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on Aug 6, ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether ...

FROM Godzilla's fiery atomic breath to post-apocalyptic anime and harrowing depictions of radiation sickness, the influence ...

The Tsar Bomba, made by the Soviet Union in 1961, is the world's most powerful nuclear bomb. Its 50-megaton yield is 3,000 ...

The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives ...

Ogura, who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, when she was 8 years old, has ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

NPR marks World Photography Day with images of everyday moments of gathering from communities across the U.S. taken by ...

World War II, the most calamitous conflict in history. The victory over Nazism in Europe is universally fêted, but the ...