Growing up, Ms Masako Wada heard horrific stories from her mother about the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ...

North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already ...

On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima became the first target of an atomic bomb in human history. In a single instant, a thriving city was reduced to ruins, and tens of thousands of lives were lost ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

In 1948, Operation Sandstone tested new atomic bomb designs just before dawn, but the most haunting sight came after each ...