Northern NSW resident Cherry Watts was washing her newborn sister's nappies when her city was destroyed by an atomic bomb at the end of World War II.

History routinely affords illuminating insights on existential challenges which have confronted humanity. Apprehending that ...

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

Brendan Fay, nuclear disarmament activist with (NYCAN - New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) welcomed Japanese Peace ...

Prayer is the most powerful means to bring peace to souls, to give them happiness, because it brings them closer to God’s love. … Only through prayer can o ...

As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who did not live through them?

"We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating nuclear weapons. Let us ...

Together, the unprecedented detonations put an end to the most devastating war in the experience of the world. Since those ...

Northeast Asia is the sole region of the world to have suffered the atrocity of nuclear warfare, and Koreans, alongside the Japanese, experienced its cataclysmic destruction.

Flag-waving hyper-nationalists in America – and other places – conveniently forget the threat of nuclear war, and have become increasingly chauvinistic and escapist.

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...