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 to ...

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The bombs were dropped on Hiroshima on ...

The surviving head of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary destroyed in the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki is expected to be ...

Public DomainThe atomic cloud from the bombing of Nagasaki as seen from a nearby shipyard. The atomic bombing in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, was one of the most impactful events of World War II. The ...

Nagasaki has marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. The mayor called nuclear weapons "absolute evil" on Sunday and denounced growing support for nuclear deterrence. He urged Japan ...

Thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed to the BBC why the blast couldn't be stopped.

In both his scholarship and his teaching, Nolan examines the disparate narratives that took shape after the bombing, as the ...

TOKYO — Taiwan's top economic representative in Japan said he boycotted this year's memorial marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, accusing city ...

Trailblazing singer and actor Akihiro Miwa, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki to become a fearless cultural icon, champion for the marginalized and tireless advocate for peace, has died. He ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.