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 ...

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

Turkey’s unveiling of the Tayfun Block-4 hypersonic missile and Gazap thermobaric bunker buster at IDEF 2025 marks a major ...

Key Points and Summary – As U.S. President Trump prepares to meet his South Korean counterpart, their alliance faces a fundamental crisis: North Korea’s proven ability to strike the U.S. mainland with ...

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

In the meantime, Trump’s Aug. 8 deadline should have been a hard one. By agreeing to meet with Putin as soon as next week, ...

August 7, 1957, was a busy day at the Nevada Test Site. On this day in history, Operation Plumbbob was underway in the desert ...

Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

In the absence of special events, the plane that bombed Hiroshima will quietly remain on display at the National Air & Space Museum's airport annex.

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

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