Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the ... Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but ...

Hiroshima survivor and Nihon Hidankyo assistant secretary general Jiro Hamasumi won't rest until there are zero nuclear ...

Donald Trump said nuclear weapons were the 'greatest threat to humanity', the deadliest one America has is much stronger than ...

"Our unity will move leaders now relying on nuclear deterrence to shift their policies," Matsui said. Hiroshima Mayor Matsui Kazumi wants Japan to become a party to the UN nuclear ban treaty.

Japan will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki amid the controversial release of treated Fukushima wastewater. Despite backlash from neighbouring countries, diplomatic ...

Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second World War and is ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer at a meeting in March of signatories to the U.N. nuclear ban treaty. During ...

8, 2025. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) As the only country to have experienced wartime atomic bombings, Japan has a responsibility to make every effort toward a "world without nuclear weapons." ...