Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing nearly 200,000 people. Months before, U.S. bombers obliterated ...

History routinely affords illuminating insights on existential challenges which have confronted humanity. Apprehending that context, clear ...

As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who did not live through them?

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

"We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating nuclear weapons. Let us ...

Together, the unprecedented detonations put an end to the most devastating war in the experience of the world. Since those ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of our country dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A few days after the ...

If Japan had not marched toward war, ordinary people would not have suffered immense hardship. Yet, adequate compensation has ...

The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...

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

THIS month marks two anniversaries that, if we lived in a world with historical memory, would be front-page news.August 6 and ...