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

Nagasaki, Aug. 8 (Jiji Press)--Mayors for Peace, a worldwide organization of city leaders, started a three-day general ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city on Wednesday ...

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

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past ...