In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...

The tests may have been carried out with good intentions but the reality represented some significant oversights, gaffs, and ...

If we hold onto nuclear weapons, most world cities face potential incineration within about an hour’s time. The resulting ...

A 10-year-old boy from the Japanese capital of Tokyo has begun telling the stories of people who survived the 1945 atomic ...

Among them was Kayo Hayashi, who was a student at Shiroyama Elementary School (formerly Shiroyama National School) during the war. Her story exemplifies the profound loss endured by the community ...

The experts warn that the risk of conventional warfare leading to the use of nuclear weapons is becoming serious.

A project to cast a new bell for an atomic-bombed cathedral in the Japanese city of Nagasaki is underway in the US Midwest ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

British and US nuclear history is irrevocably interwoven. The US and UK cooperated on the Manhattan project, under the 1943 ...

My grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer shared the first principle of nuclear weapons: The only safety from them is in ...