The nuclear anxiety of the 1950s led to two unlikely strategies: ducking under school desks and taking advice from a cartoon turtle.

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that ...

The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands ...

Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She ...

Treated as outcasts for decades, these survivors and their children are now speaking out against global nuclear rearmament.

When “Little Boy” detonated above the Japanese city, 80,000 people died instantly. The flash, brighter than the sun, transformed Hiroshima into the world’s first nuclear battlefield. Tens of thousands ...