It was 80 years ago on July 16 that a mysterious flash of light and a massive explosion rumbled in the New Mexico desert.

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

A nuclear expert warned that Iran could have a Hiroshima-type bomb "within six to 12 months," provided the most recent U.S. intelligence reports on the damage from Trump's airstrikes are accurate ...

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

It’s been 80 years since a nuclear bomb was last used in war, but these weapons continue to haunt us due to their frightening destructive capabilities.

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

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, ...

While taking questions at the NATO summit on Wednesday, President Donald Trump compared his recent strikes on Iran to the dropping of the atomic bomb.

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

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

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

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on ...