This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...

The 80th anniversaries of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide an instructive moment for Russian ...

For Archbishop Wester, the issue is close to home. Located within his archdiocese is the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he noted ...

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 ...

Japan faces with growing urgency the question of how to carry forward the moral voice for ridding the world of nuclear ...

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

T he United Nations declared September 26 to be the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Despite the international body’s ambition to end the stain of nuclear weaponry, they ...

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

Northeast Asia is the sole region of the world to have suffered the atrocity of nuclear warfare, and Koreans, alongside the Japanese, experienced its cataclysmic destruction.

Survivors’ voices and new memorials mark the grim milestone. “This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a human issue,” says Dr. Ira Helfand—as global stockpiles grow for the first time since the Cold War.

Iain McGregor's new book revisits the events that led to the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings and a slim volume brings together ...

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