Towards the end of the Second World War, US President Harry Truman thought to speed up Japan ’s surrender by dropping two ...

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 has welcomed 2 million ...

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Yasuo, who once worked in documentary filmmaking in Tokyo, was inspired to become a pastor by Koko's father, Reverend Kiyoshi ...

A quaint Canadian town, dubbed the 'Village of Widows', has a dark and tumultuous history linked to over 200,000 deaths.

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YR4 has raised alarm as its chances of hitting Earth grow. Experts warn that a collision could release 500 times the energy ...

He had good reason to worry. In 1995, a half-century after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., planned to exhibit ...

Finding that mice are more likely to survive radiation if a protein is knocked out could also aid cancer patients undergoing ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya officially announced on Feb. 18 that Japan will not attend an anti-nuclear weapons meeting at the United Nations in March, drawing indignation from the 2024 Nobel Peace ...

In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...