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Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city 80 years ago, with survivors determined to make their hometown the last place on earth hit by the bomb.
It’s part of a larger revisionist attempt in this generation. Winston Churchill —under these revisionists—is a terrorist.
Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington likened the current moment to the era of profound reflection in Catholic circles after the Second World War that led to ...
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged residents to "prioritise actions to save your lives" as heavy rainfall triggered ...
This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...
Helfand’s International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, the same year the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was passed at the UN, much due ...
Survivors’ voices and new memorials mark the grim milestone. “This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a human issue,” says Dr. Ira Helfand—as global stockpiles grow for the first time since the Cold War.
Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...
Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...
(We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History! You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the way back to our start on May 6, 2015, at our newly updated database . By ...
Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...