In the community that became the Tri-Cities, workers raced during World War II to create the plutonium for the atomic bomb ...

NAGASAKI -- "Where are you originally from? You visit your mom from time to time, right?" Yasujiro Tanaka, an 83-year-old ...

The newly-installed bell in Nagasaki’s Catholic cathedral expresses “compassion and respect” between US and Japanese ...

An exclusive excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima recounts the tale of one the few western eye-witnesses, a POW, and the guard ...

One by one, participants solemnly rang a ceremonial gong at the Dayton International Peace Museum Tuesday night as they commemorated the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Catholic Church must renew its ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities ...

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about.

St. Kolbe was captured by the German occupiers of Poland on Feb. 17, 1941 – first placed in the murderous Pawiak Gestapo ...

Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another ...