HIROSHIMA (Reuters) - Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and ...

Oppenheimer was tasked in 1942 with leading the nuclear weapons development project named the 'Manhattan Project.' After the atomic bomb he developed was actually used in August 1945, he felt fear and ...

A senior official from the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office (Prime Minister’s Official Residence) sparked controversy on the 18th by stating during a meeting with reporters, “We should possess nuclear ...

A Japanese atomic bomb survivors group that won the Nobel Peace Prize has strongly criticised US President Donald Trump's surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing, calling it "utterly ...

JS Sogei, the sixth Taigei-class submarine, entered the water in a ceremony held at KHI’s shipyard in Kobe City, Japan, Oct. 14, 2025. The Taigei class are Japan’s newest diesel-electric submarines.

NAGASAKI, Japan — Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during ...

Today, on the 15th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Japan’s nuclear story is one of a widening gap between political ambition and physical reality – one that the country’s ...

Global tensions are rising as nations consider developing nuclear weapons. Donald Trump's policies are prompting countries ...