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

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...

Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...

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

NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...

On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine after delivering components of the atomic bomb, leaving hundreds of sailors stranded at sea.

In 1957, cameras captured something extraordinary: a 130,000-pound B-47 Stratojet bomber executing what appears to be an ...

Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

The Second World War had dragged on for more than five years by the time scientists with the Manhattan Project were ready to test the world’s first atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert. Once that ...

A U.S. military unit dropped dummy bombs in various parts of Japan as part of exercises aimed at training forces to gain the ...