The movie depicting survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb based on a novel by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro drew thunderous applause at the Cannes Film Festival at a recent screening.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Hiroshima next month to honor the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary of th ...

Production of the WWII atomic bomb was “need to know”, limited to physicists and engineers for security.  The two fission bombs immediately killed about a quarter million Japanese.

Cohasset lost seven other men during World War II, all of whom are memorialized at different locations around town: Allen A.

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the ...

On May 15, 1955, the U.S. military finished a series of atomic tests in southern Nevada. The front page of the Deseret News ...

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the ...

As Milne and Stubbs flew to RAF Turnberry in Ayrshire with the Highball onboard, it is believed that the Mosquito suffered a ...

Many scientists contributed to the final result, but he was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s most ...

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS ...