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, ...

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

Difficult and controversial as it was, President Truman's decision to drop the bombs saved countless lives, both Japanese and ...

Revisiting the math and morality of the Allied forces’ decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Earlier this week, on August 6th, America as a nation commemorated the 80th anniversary of dropping the atomic bomb on ...

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Kenichi Kubota, 58, a tree doctor, has continued an annual survey of trees that were exposed to the radiation in Nagasaki ...

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, ...

At 17, Koichi Tagawa survived Nagasaki’s atomic blast and recording two months of grief, destruction and the loss of his ...

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

Key Points and Summary – Eighty years ago this week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, forcing the end of ...