It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about.

The newly-installed bell in Nagasaki’s Catholic cathedral expresses “compassion and respect” between US and Japanese Catholics, according to the academic who ...

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city on Wednesday ...

The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...

WHEN the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was on board both of the ...

This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the number of people who remember those fateful days is dwindling. CNN's Hanako Montgomery sat down ...

Masako Toki writes that the voices of the Hibakusha offer not only memory, but also moral clarity in an age of growing peril.

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

Difficult and controversial as it was, President Truman's decision to drop the bombs saved countless lives, both Japanese and ...