Making the sixth of August a national holiday might be seem wildly inappropriate. The memory of mass death ought not be celebrated, let alone create an occasion to go to the beach. But it would not be ...

It has been 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and western Massachusetts residents marked that dark time in U.S. history with a ceremony calling for peace.

"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 ...

Eighty years after the world witnessed the first atomic bombs dropped in Japan, survivors of the bombing gathered at a ceremony in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden to commemorate ...

It started in secrecy and ended with a mushroom cloud. The daughter of Manhattan Project technician shares what it meant to be raised in the long shadow of the Manhattan Project.

Dozens of people — including peace activists, members of faith groups, and musicians — gathered on Wednesday to raise alarm ...

Long Islanders honor the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, urging global leaders to prevent future nuclear ...

Venesa Torres of Oak Ridge watches as citizens ring the International Friendship Bell at A.K. Bissell Park at 6:47 a.m. to ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.

Anti-nuclear war activists protested outside Lawrence Livermore National laboratory in California on Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors ...

In August 1945, two U.S. B‑29 bombers took off from the tiny Pacific island of Tinian and forever altered the course of ...