A team of researchers at Nagasaki University's graduate school has announced that radiation from uranium particles believed to have origin

Are There Really Alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz? A Confounding Weekend for the Middle East Experts Audio By Carbonatix The dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 remains the only wartime use of ...

NAGASAKI--Atomic bomb survivors rallied at the Peace Park here on June 9 for the 500th protest sit-in they have continued staging on the ninth day of every month for more than four decades.

Raw video shows the final preparation and loading of the bomb, and the subsequent explosion on Nagasaki. This footage comes from Los Alamos National Laboratory. It was edited by Alex Wellerstein just to add some interesting notes on the bomb and what can ...

Hiroshima gets all the attention, but Nagasaki teaches the more important lesson. The need to destroy Hiroshima will be forever debated, but the counterarguments were unpersuasive to President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson. A world war ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, will visit Nagasaki Prefecture from Sept. 12 to 14 for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Imperial Household Agency announced the itinerary on Aug. 12. The imperial ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — On the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, Sanae Ikeda was anything but the obedient son. His mother told him to stay home with his sisters and brothers while she went to a farmer’s house for food. But the 12-year-old sneaked out, headed to a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Nagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city Wednesday with the mayor urging world powers to abolish nuclear weapons, saying nuclear deterrence also increases risks of nuclear war. Shiro Suzuki made the remark ...