Citizens that include atomic bomb survivors are traveling to New York to advocate for a world without nuclear weapons at a meeting of signatories of a nuclear ban treaty.

NAGASAKI - Survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been campaigning for a nuclear-free world, but their goal is increasingly facing challenges amid ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

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NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing ...

Rare tapes reveal the stories of Hiroshima’s Ground Zero through interviews of 78 survivors. Ground Zero— the area within 500 meters of the hypocenter in Hiroshima where the atom bomb was dropped. Yet ...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori as he visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo TOKYO, ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

According to a statement by the Nihon Hidankyo organization of atomic bomb survivors, Japan is seeking to change the country’s non-nuclear principles and constitution without sufficient debate TOKYO, ...