One of the most painful things about growing older is the death of deeply loved and deeply wise mentors. A few years ago, during a terribly short span of time, three of my favorite priests passed away ...

On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima became the first target of an atomic bomb in human history. In a single instant, a thriving city was reduced to ruins, and tens of thousands of lives were lost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United ...

The U.S. used the first-ever atomic weapon of war on August 6, 1945. The effects are still being felt around the world, including in Chicago. August 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of ...

A Hiroshima court issued a rare ruling Wednesday expanding the designation of atomic bomb survivors to include more people hit by radioactive "black rain", 75 years after the US nuclear attack on ...

Director James Cameron announced his new project, a movie on the aftermath of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States of America during the Second World War. The project ...

SAN DIEGO — A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing has shared her story for the first time, 80 years after the devastating event that marked the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare. Ikuko ...

Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor, spent decades researching the forgotten American prisoners of war killed in the ...