The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

They’ve even removed it from official maps to make it hard for foolhardy ... Just off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima Island, also called “Battleship Island,” a coal-mining location that ...

Japan's long wait of 15 years for a BSL-4 lab to study deadly viruses got longer after public opposition to the setup at ...

(Kyodo) MAEBASHI (Kyodo) -- A 95-year-old atomic bomb survivor who lost five family members in the 1945 Nagasaki blast is making her anti-war presence felt on social media, where she has gained a ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93. Fukahori died at a ...

The first hit Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first.

Cerro Coso Community College is honored to present the Hiroshima Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibit, a powerful pop-up exhibition ...

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He avoided media reports on anniversaries of the Battle of Okinawa, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's defeat in World War II and other war-related topics that crop up every ...