As the video above explains, approximately 35 percent of the energy of a nuclear blast is released in the form of thermal ...

GROWING up in the most nuked place on Earth, Maira Abenova has helplessly watched as cancer spread through her family. After ...

The Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 and the worst nuclear accident ever, in Chernobyl, now Ukraine, in 1986, expanded the ...

A newsroom writes history’s first draft—not propaganda, but stories of suffering. As we mourned the crash victims, news broke ...

For today’s Good Question, Alvin asks: Tornadoes are classified as EF 1, 2, 3, and ect. What does EF and the number mean? The EF stands for Enhanced Fujita. That’s because the original Fujita Scale ...

So it was striking when, later in Tanaka’s speech, he referenced the hardships of “A-bomb survivors living abroad,” ...

Nagasaki Medical College Hospital after the nuclear explosion On the mornings of August 6th and 9th, 1945, the skies over Japan witnessed two enormous mushroom clouds rise over Hiroshima and ...

On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people including many who survived the explosion but died later from radiation exposure.

The mayor of Nagasaki has defended his decision not to invite Israel to Friday’s memorial for those killed ... killing 74,000 people including many who survived the explosion but died later from ...

Meanwhile, Oya, an expert on Nagasaki atomic bomb fallout, stated that the accounts are detailed and credible, indicating that rain and ash fell over a wider area than the 12-kilometer radius that ...

In Nagasaki, which was bombed by the US three days later, at least 74,000 were killed. Sueichi Kido lived just 2km (1.24 miles) from the epicentre of the Nagasaki blast. Aged five at the time, he ...

Nagasaki’s Christian community grew so quickly it was known as “Little Rome” among traders at the time. ... and radiation generated by the explosion, 8,500 were Catholic.