LOCALS have slammed their council over a playground that has become so run down it has been likened to Chernobyl. The play ...

In March 1945, U.S. Army Air Forces intensified their strategic bombing campaign over Japan. Instead of flying high-altitude ...

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was awarded for its decadeslong activism against nuclear weapons. The survivors ...

For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...

Nuclear weapons, he noted, have only been used twice, both against Japan. The Manhattan Project that developed the bomb was ...

For 1950s teenagers, 'Godzilla' was scary fun. For Japanese audiences, the film — which turns 70 this November 3 — was much darker ...

A spiritual undercurrent runs through Hiroshima Bomb Money, least credible in the several mysterious appearances of Otousan’s ...

Netanyahu’s escalating confrontation with Iran has pushed the region to the brink of a protracted conflagration that, like World War I, could become ‘very complicated and very hard to stop’.

The best films of the 2020s so far include big-budget blockbusters and lesser-known indie gems, from the spectacular ...

As the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Nihon Hidankyo – the organisation of Japanese atomic bomb survivors – Michiko Kodama’s experiences are testimony to the horrors and long-term effects ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui addressed the Seanad Eireann, the upper chamber of Ireland's parliament, on Wednesday, seeking cooperation over the fight against nuclear weapons and over calls for ...

Representatives of the seven A-bomb survivors' groups read aloud a statement they issued, during a joint press conference at Hiroshima City Hall on Oct. 17, 2024. (Mainichi/Deockwoo An ...