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 ...

The collected materials will be stored at the National Peace Memorial halls for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With consent from owners or families, some of the items will be ...

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 ...

A national memorial hall in Japan for victims of the atomic bomb plans to hold its annual overseas exhibition in Britain this year. The facility, in the western Japanese city of Nagasaki ...

The development of a nuclear ... powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The B61-13, therefore, would also be 14 times more powerful than the 25-kiloton bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

“He lived for the sake of others until his end,” Mitsuaki Takami, a 79-year-old former archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nagasaki, said after the Mass. “As an atomic bomb survivor, I’m ...