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Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki urged the world to "stop armed conflicts immediately" at the annual memorial ceremony for victims ...

Twin cathedral bells rang in unison Saturday in Japan's Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 ...

Memorial for US atomic bombing of Japanese city during WWII attended by representatives from some 100 countries, amid prayers ...

Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the ...

For two weeks in the summer of 1945, from July 17 to August 2, President Truman, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta, Crimea, ...

The 80th anniversary of this pivotal event in history is a particularly notable one, as it will be the last milestone for most of the few remaining survivors.

"This weapon has not gone away, right? If anything, our capacity of countries who have nuclear development, the capacity to engage in nuclear harm has only gotten greater, and so the responsibility ...

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

Wesley Burris remembers waking to a morning of potent, white light and panic as the planet’s first atomic bomb went off in a test in the Jornada del Muerto desert near his family’s Southern New Mexico ...

Kazumi Matsui said the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East meant a growing acceptance of nuclear weapons.