Nagasaki marked 80 years on Saturday, August 9, since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city, holding its annual ...

Thailand’s Meteorological Department reports tropical storm Podul forming in the South China Sea–Pacific Ocean, moving west ...

Robert Hampton Gray led a Second World War attack that sank a Japanese destroyer, though his aircraft was hit, crashed and ...

From humble beginnings, Jim Sharkey served as Irish ambassador in Russia, Australia and Japan and rubbed shoulders with kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers. He spoke to Pat McArt about hi ...

At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary photos of one survivor of the attack. Sumiteru Taniguchi, who died in 2017, was ...