NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...

A Japanese court ordered Wednesday the state to pay damages to the bereaved relatives of victims originally from the Korean Peninsula who were exposed to 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in Hiroshima. The ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

HIROSHIMA—The Hiroshima District Court ordered the central government on Jan. 28 to pay a total of about 3.3 million yen ($21,600) in damages to families of atomic bomb survivors living abroad.

8-year-old Hayawo Kiyama of Los Osos was fishing with his aunt when lightning lit up the sky: "It was wide and thick but ...

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" opens up dialogue about the dark side of science, which led him to compare the rise of AI ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Nagasaki, Japan — Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern Japanese city 80 years ago and survivors are working to make their hometown the last place on earth hit by the bomb. The ...