In the 80 years since the U.S. attacks on Japan, no other country has used a nuclear weapon in war. That remarkable record could soon be broken and all progress lost.

Gushiken Takamatsu said Curtis LeMay, who orchestrated the firebombing, should never have been given the honour A peace ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more complex ...

In 2015, an event in Nagasaki added more nuance to André's view. People there paid for a stone memorial for prisoners of war and their families, and they erected it at the site of the camp.

Kazuyuki moved to Nagasaki with his classmates at age 14 for mobilization at Mitsubishi’s weapons factories as part of Japan’s war effort. “I’m working hard every day while enduring the ...

These two books describe how American doctors were linked to troubling events during World War II that raised thorny moral issues around medicine and war.

Fukahori died at a hospital in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan ... Japan surrendered days later, ending World War II and the country's nearly half-century of aggression across Asia.

Nagasaki marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony Friday eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in response ...

A memorial service was held on Monday at a park facility in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, marking the 80th anniversary of a massive ...

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...