The Latest Breaking News from Nagasaki

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new…

Social media users in Japan argued the "Barbenheimer" mash-up made light of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

MORIOKA -- An exhibition featuring pictures taken by U.S. military photographer Joe O'Donnell -- known for his historic depiction of a Japanese boy carrying a dead baby on his back in Nagasaki in 1945 -- opened in Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday.

‘The bombs are three times more powerful than those (dropped on) Hiroshima and Nagasaki’

NAGASAKI -- Members of the Nagasaki Council against A and H Bombs (Nagasaki Gensuikyo) collected signatures in downtown Nagasaki on Saturday for a petition calling on the Japanese government to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Holding this week’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, is an attempt by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to promote an anti-nuclear message

Author John Vaillant’s Fire Weather chronicles the 2016 Fort McMurray blaze – Canada’s costliest natural disaster

U.S. President Joe Biden will not visit Nagasaki during his May trip to Japan for the Group of Seven summit meeting in Hiroshima due to scheduling difficulties, according to Japanese government sources.

The US invasion of Iraq that began 20 years ago has left a toxic legacy worse than that of the Hiroshima bombing, according to a recent study. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945 killed around 140,000 people, most of whom died instantly, while…