Up to 246,000 people are estimated to have died after the US dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the only time such weapons have ever been used outside of military tests. The Catholic ...

Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic ... months after the attack from injuries and radiation poisoning. Three days later, on August 9, another Japanese city, Nagasaki, was ...

After the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, support came in from abroad. Some sent medicine, others sent money. But one American thought this wasn't enough, and ...

The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki ... an historic experiment: after bombarding uranium ...

More than six decades after the war ended ... the U.S. military dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Kazuyuki was working at an elementary school about 500 meters from ground ...

NAGASAKI--For decades, atomic bombing survivor Nobuko Oka ... developing symptoms of what is believed to be atomic bomb disease four years after the explosion. Oka had to fight not just the ...

Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in ... but decided to drop the bomb on Nagasaki after cloud cover over Kokura blocked the pilots' vision. Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

A photo dated September 1945 of the remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building after the nuclear ... movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as ...

A 10-year-old boy from the Japanese capital of Tokyo has begun telling the stories of people who survived the 1945 atomic ...

St. Paul and Nagasaki, Japan. This was the first relationship of its kind between U.S. and Japanese (or any Asian) cities.