Nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons are currently operational worldwide, with a combined explosive force equivalent to 135,000 ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori has died at age 88. Mori was a historian and best known for a big hug he was ...

The number of deployed and ready-to-use nuclear weapons increased significantly last year, according to a report published Thursday, which describes this ...

Earlier this month, Shigeaki Mori warned that the world was at risk of another nuclear attack over the wars in the Middle ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. Ten years have already passed since Barack ...

A Japanese peace activist is hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament by keeping alive the stories of the atomic bomb survivors through the creation of a mobile museum.

Authorities in Hiroshima City have found hair inside urns containing the unclaimed remains of 52 atomic bomb victims.

HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Municipal Government on March 22 returned the remains of a young girl killed by the atomic bomb ...

Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states have started increasing their arsenals or have announced plans to do so, ...

On Wednesday, residents of Hiroshima will pause to remember the day — exactly 80 years ago — that changed the course of history. The device that exploded over Hiroshima destroyed about two-thirds of ...

Shigeaki Mori, a historian and an atomic bomb survivor who met Barack Obama in 2016 during the then U.S. president's visit to ...