This is a condensed version of a 1992 article based on an interview with Ted Van Kirk, of Northumberland, the navigator of the Enola Gay, who died in 2014. The article originally appeared in The Daily ...

On August 9, 1945, clouds over Kokura forced a US bomber to switch to Nagasaki, where a sudden break in the sky led to a ...

As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a local leader is calling for ...

With over 12,000 nuclear warheads still in existence in the world, Maroosha Muzaffar asks are we forgetting the horrors endured by hibakusha, the survivors?

Thus far the U.S. is the only nation to ever deploy a nuclear weapon in time of war. We must keep it that way, for the sake ...

Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the pilot of the Enola Gay.

ReadIt: Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the books that reveal the truth behind the mushroom clouds and why we must ...

EXCLUSIVE: Geoff Stott survived the sinking of HMS Exeter, the Burma Railway, and forced labour in a Japanese shipyard - only ...

Exactly 80 years will have passed next Friday, August 15 - VJ Day - since Japan surrendered in 1945 and WWII ended.

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki marks poignant historical reflection on the only use of ...

The smell of burning flesh, unrecognisable bodies. More than 200,000 dead. Have we forgotten the sheer horror of August 1945?

America's incinerating of civilians in the atom bombs of 1945. Was that war, or war crime? asks Rosita Sweetman ...