While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

A World War Two veteran has been presented with a letter of thanks by the first minister of Wales.

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...

Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

Pictured: A photo of First Lightning, the first ever Soviet atomic bomb test. The United States assigned it the code-name Joe ...

How can we celebrate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, knowing that victory was bought by the dropping of atomic bombs? For ...

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two ...

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...