On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family's Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

The Nagasaki Bell represents peace and an apology for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

See a collection of historic images from the attack that propelled the U.S. into World War II ...

The Nagasaki Peace Bell in Honolulu sits near the intersection of South Beretani and Lauhala streets, at the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds. In addition to Honolulu, other replicas of the Nagasaki ...

After decades of delays, workers at the Hanford nuclear site this October finally began treatment of the 56 million gallons ...

A year after Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Japanese group's 93-year-old co-chair continues working hard to move public opinion toward the abolition of nuclear weapons. "We've s ...

NAGASAKI -- Junko Wakiyama, a Nagasaki local culinary expert, continues to hold cooking classes at the age of 89, dedicated to preserving Nagasaki's t･･･ ...

Koko Kondo was just 8 months old when a U.S. nuclear bomb obliterated her community. She wants to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself, and sees Americans as allies in her quest.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man, is the only known person to have survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and of ...