For 80 years, since the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has stood at the brink of nuclear war with the potential for catastrophic loss, threatening all of humanity.

EIGHTY years ago this week, the world welcomed the nuclear age in a horrific demonstration of death and destruction. On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, a United States warplane dropped an atomic bomb on ...

Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Ernest J. Moniz speak with Christiane Amanpour ...

Hundreds gathered at Seattle’s Green Lake Wednesday evening to honor the more than 200,000 victims of the United States’ ...

On Aug. 6 – the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord – Cardinal Cupich presided over a Mass for peace in Hiroshima, where ...

Iran has rejected multifront nuclear pressure from the United States and European countries amid sanctions threats.

In a talk in Hiroshima, Japan, as part of a Pilgrimage of Peace coinciding with the 80 th anniversaries of the United States ...

SEATTLE — Eighty years after the United States dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 ...

A solemn reflection on history took place in Japan as a memorial ceremony marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Fifty-five thousand people, including ...

With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now exceeding 86, the anniversary is considered the last ...

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi laid a wreath during the ceremony in Hiroshima and was the only elected U.S. official among more than 200 dignitaries and representatives present.

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...