"Nuclear weapons are not a ‘necessary evil’ but an ‘absolute evil,’ and can never coexist with humanity,” Mayor Shiro Suzuki said.

Nagasaki marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony Friday eclipsed by the absence of the American ambassador and other Western envoys in response to ...

NAGASAKI—Masamitsu Watanabe has intensified his campaign as head of the group of citizens for correcting atomic bomb exhibits ...

This year, Harada is visiting survivors of both U.S. atomic bombings, as their numbers and the full extent of their suffering ...

NAGASAKI -- The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum is facing growing maintenance problems including leaks and elevator failures as ...

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- The leading Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group on Tuesday denounced the "absolute evil" of nuclear ...

“Public memory has elevated Hiroshima into a universal symbol of the tragedy of war and horror of atomic weapons, while allowing Nagasaki to fade into the background,” writes James M. Scott.

Thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed to the BBC why the blast couldn't be stopped.

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

TOKYO — Nagasaki marked on Sunday the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern city, as the mayor called nuclear weapons “absolute evil,” denounced growing support for nuclear ...