Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

There is a long history of research experiments to generate earthquakes, tsunamis and climate disasters. As Partick J. Kiger wrote Between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 23 nuclear weapons ...

In fact, her early drawing of a tree, frequently recalled in the film, has a shape like that of the old atomic bomb “mushroom clouds.” Then there is some business about poor information sharing.

Tanaka, 92, was speaking at a press conference in Tokyo on Tuesday after returning from Oslo where he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize award on behalf of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading to the end of World War Two. The article contains graphic images and ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to meet next month with members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received this year's Nobel Peace Prize, a source ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to meet next month with members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... light-years away at the edge of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's small satellite galaxies.

“Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), based on Keiji Nakazawa’s experiences as an atomic bomb survivor, might never have seen the light of day if not for a comic magazine editor who also survived ...

Representatives of Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), which is made up of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...