A U.S. project has completed work on a new bell to be donated to Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki to replace one that was ...

Tucked away in a secluded Welsh valley lies the abandoned Rhydymwyn's MS Valley Factory, a chemical weapons facility that ...

Deep beneath a remote Welsh valley lie secret tunnels used in the fight against Hitler and then used to develop nuclear ...

A minute-by-minute guide on how to survive a nuclear bomb attack, and ways to be prepared for war.

Japan must not only focus on its own suffering from the atomic bombings during World War II but also recognize the harm it ...

Gushiken Takamatsu said Curtis LeMay, who orchestrated the firebombing, should never have been given the honour.

The first broken arrow occurred on February 14, 1950, when a U.S. Convair B-36, en route from Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska, to Carswell A.F.B. in Fort Worth, Texas, crashed in ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

Malaysia has tightened security along its border with Thailand following a bomb blast in the neighbouring nation. Inspector General Razarudin Husain said on Sunday that the police were closely ...

A million others became homeless. The death toll exceeds those killed in the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki. But the Tokyo firebombing has been largely eclipsed by the two atomic bombings.

SEOUL, South Korea — The number of people injured when South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped bombs on a civilian area has increased to 29 from 15, the National Defense Ministry said Friday.

Archive 1945 is a project republishing The Economist’s original reporting on the final year of the second world war. Eighty years on, follow the course of the conflict week by week, in new ...