Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Cristina Alivio shares the harrowing testimony of Katsuko Kuwamoto, a six-year-old survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945. Kuwamoto's account reveals the unimaginable suffering, hunger, ...

Nature suffers too. After the blast, a huge firestorm can start, fed by strong winds. It can burn for hours, using up all the ...

The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983 ...

When the US warplane dropped a 4,400kg atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and 43 seconds later it detonated 600 metres above the city, ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it has been "an honour" to visit Hiroshima. He told Japanese journalists: "I'm here first ...

A few days later, on August 9, 1945, Bockscar flew over Nagasaki and dropped another atom bomb, Fat Man. The devastation ...

LONDON -- Two people who survived the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing talked about their experiences to university students here on June 15. They told t ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin ended his four-day trip to Japan on Friday with a visit to Hiroshima, meeting a survivor of the ...

President Donald Trump Wednesday likened Washington's strike on Iran's nuclear facilities to the US dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to en ...

Donald Trump’s comments have been slammed as ‘unacceptable’ by officials of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and survivors of the 1945 ...

According to Campain for Nuclear Disarmament (CNDUK), the heart of a nuclear explosion can reach numerous million degrees celsius, while creating a blast wave that causes a jump in air pressure, ...