In the bleakest days of the Cold War, there was a terrifying yet oddly reassuring logic to the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two superpowers were constrained by ...

Two friends, connected by family histories on opposite sides of World War II, set out to explore the lasting trauma of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. While Japanese hibakusha (survivors) endure ...

One of the most painful things about growing older is the death of deeply loved and deeply wise mentors. A few years ago, during a terribly short span of time, three of my favorite priests passed away ...

Hayawo Kiyama, now an 89-year-old Los Osos resident, was 8 and fishing with his widowed aunt on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, when they witnessed the bombing of Nagasaki. He later became a daito ryu ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, known as the “hibakusha,” will host events to share personal stories of the 1945 World War II atomic bombing and engage in discussions of ...

A nuclear expert has explained what would happen to the human body during an atomic bomb explosion. Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science and nuclear weapons and a professor at the Stevens ...

The Corpus Christi community will have the opportunity to hear from survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, during an Oct. 28 event at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Eighty ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family paid their respects Friday to the victims of the atomic bombing 80 years ago of the city of Nagasaki. Naruhito, his wife, Empress Masako, ...