By Keith Hamm By design, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a major city would be devastating. The explosion of intense ...

NAGASAKI — A U.S. project has completed work on a new bell to be donated to Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki to replace one that was damaged in the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. The project is being ...

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What makes the B61-12 particularly impressive is the bomb’s ability to adjust its destructive yield depending on the ...

Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, toward the end of World War II, two Japanese torpedoes sunk the USS […] ...

Inside the country, the government has limited its compensation for wartime damage to former service ... and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been excluded from beneficiary ...

DNA damage and repair refers to the creation and correction of DNA lesions that threaten genome integrity. Because DNA replication errors or environmental agents that damage DNA can introduce ...

NAGASAKI – Cherry trees began blooming in Nagasaki on Monday, according to the Nagasaki district meteorological observatory. The official announcement of the blooming in the city is two days earlier ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by ...

ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...