Experts have said the Hanford Site in Washington is an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen. Here's what the most toxic ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, had two children with his wife. Some of his grandchildren continue to ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This "Historically Speaking" column contains the opinions of columnist D. Ray Smith based upon the research ...

The identity of the company behind Project Spin, a $4.5 billion enterprise related to advanced nuclear fuel, is expected to ...

NAGASAKI -- "Impacts may be small, but not powerless": ...

NAGASAKI—The mayor of Nagasaki has decided not to invite a representative of Israel to attend the city’s peace ceremony on the Aug. 9 atomic bombing anniversary, citing the risk of possible ...

The project is an effort to encourage U.S. Catholics to support the casting of a new bell for Nagasaki's Urakami Cathedral as ...

A scholar who has written about the moral implications of atomic weapons and now is writing a book on the historic legacy of ...

They weren’t subjected to fallout from above-ground testing, however. Instead, some of it was from the work done at the ...

NAGASAKI--With Typhoon No. 6 barreling toward Kyushu, Nagasaki city officials held a scaled-back ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing. The ceremony was held indoors rather ...

A 92-year-old Japanese survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki described the horrors he witnessed in 1945 as he ...

An image authentically shows a newspaper headline from 1945 saying that children wrote to Santa Claus to ask for atomic bombs ...