Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...

At the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, Catholic peace groups gathered in Washington, DC, to remember the victims, ...

Flag-waving hyper-nationalists in America – and other places – conveniently forget the threat of nuclear war, and have become increasingly chauvinistic and escapist.

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NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged residents to "prioritise actions to save your lives" as heavy rainfall triggered ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

A U.S. military unit dropped dummy bombs in various parts of Japan as part of exercises aimed at training forces to gain the ...

Eighty years ago today, the first of two atomic bombs was used in anger. Hiroshima and then Nagasaki were vaporised. The ...

It’s Victory Day in Rhode Island on Monday.It marks Japan's surrender to the U.S., ending World War 2 in August 1945.