My interest in Japanese Catholicism was reignited recently by the Nagasaki Bell Project, a noble effort being led by professor James Nolan of Williams College, the grandson of a doctor who was one of ...

Here’s the complete list of the countries with the most nuclear weapons. · Russia · US · China · France · UK · India · ...

“On 18 May 1974, India conducted a nuclear explosion for the first time at the Pokhran Test Site, which was given the code ...

The atom bomb, like the ones which devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, is the first nuclear weapon ever made by humankind. It works by producing a sudden burst of enormous energy when atoms ...

Takamatsu, 76, is one of two Japanese cardinals at the conclave. His great-grandfather, who personally lived the experience ...

You'd think that something like a nuclear bomb attack couldn't get any worse. But when you dig into the details, the story ...

Nuclear power is a key plank in Japan’s national energy vision, but 14 years after the Fukushima meltdown, the restart ...

Tomiko Ichikawa, ambassador to the delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament, reads out a joint statement during a preparatory meeting for the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ...

August 9, 1945 – An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. August 29, 1949 – The Soviet Union conducts its first nuclear weapons test. December 1951 – Electricity is first generated from ...

A former head of the Royal Navy in Scotland has recalled how he spent VE Day fearing the Second World War would continue for ...