About 100 people have gathered for a wreath-laying service to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day).

Oppenheimer chronicles the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who played a significant role in the Manhattan Project that created the world's first nuclear weapons.

Ukraine’s ambassador is warning of a growing threat from China and Russia as Australia marks the end of World War II in the ...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States unleashed a nuclear inferno over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. By the end of 1945, the attacks had killed 210,000 people, with 330,000 more dying ...

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

Even if it has been kept as secret as the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb that ended World War II or whatever it is the U.S. has stashed at Area 51, West Virginia’s quarterback battle ...

As the number of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors decreases, Japan's Legacy Successor Programme trains volunteers ...

Research 80 years after atomic bombings suggests high doses of radiation pose lower cancer risk than often assumed ...

People across Merseyside and beyond will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day tomorrow, August 15. In May this year, the ...

Julie Minns MP said: “On this the 80th anniversary of VJ day, I wish to place on record my thanks and remembrance of those ...

Nagasaki, Aug. 14 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese woman and an American man whose grandfathers experienced the U.S. atomic bombings ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...