Paris, 1959. The staff of Cahiers du Cinema, the now-legendary French film magazine, convened only its second all-hands-on-deck critics' round table. The occasion, headlined as "an event which seems ...

To the editor: After reading the mixed and somewhat weak resolutions from the G7 summit to the threat and proliferation of nuclear weapons in our world, one should keep a very important and ...

Japan marks 80 years since the U.S.'s World War II nuclear attack on Hiroshima. The number of atomic bomb survivors is dwindling, as wars and global instability pose a growing challenge to Japan's ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

Looking out over the skyline of Hiroshima, 96-year-old Junji Sarashina points out places from his childhood. "That was my grade school. Not too far from here," he tells his granddaughter, showing her ...

Obama said he is going to Hiroshima to help press “the sense of urgency that we should all have” about stopping nuclear proliferation. “The dropping of the atomic bomb, ushering in of nuclear weapons, ...

The U.S. used the first-ever atomic weapon of war on August 6, 1945. The effects are still being felt around the world, including in Chicago. August 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of ...

At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, a light brighter than the sun radiated over New Mexico. The fireball annihilated everything in the vicinity, then produced a mushroom cloud that billowed more than seven ...

Roughly two hours before the United States bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets announced to his crew of the Enola Gay that they were carrying the "world's first atomic bomb." ...