Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...

For Archbishop Wester, the issue is close to home. Located within his archdiocese is the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he noted ...

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

This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...

At the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, Catholic peace groups gathered in Washington, DC, to remember the victims, ...

Iain McGregor's new book revisits the events that led to the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings and a slim volume brings together ...

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 ...

A nuclear winter - a feared scenario following a nuclear war - 'would cause an unfathomable loss of life' numbering billions ...

Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...

The Superpowers of world politics, the United States of America (USA), China, and Russia, are in a race already generating trepidation because of its ...

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people (most of them civilians), and left many more dealing with radioactive fallout and emotional ...

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, ...