Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.

the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, whose 2005 book “American ...

The award ceremony was also broadcast at the social book cafe Hachidori-sha ... that this is so little known in Japanese society,” he said. Near the Atomic Bomb Dome, around 120 people gathered ...

HIROSHIMA--Shooting will begin next year for a movie portraying the bond between the U.S. author of the bestseller “Hiroshima” and an atomic bomb survivor featured in the book. John Hersey was ...

(Kyodo) SAITAMA (Kyodo) -- A planned exhibition in Australia of Japanese paintings mainly depicting the misery of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been canceled, a gallery that owns the ...

The USA has a reputation for coming up with some pretty wacky uses of nuclear weapons, from dropping nuclear bombs on the Moon, to dropping a nuclear bomb on Alaska. But they are not the only ...

The Japanese citizen was just 14 years old when the bomb fell on the city. He had worked at a shipyard several miles from the bomb’s hypocenter and for years did not talk about the experience.

Storm Éowyn, an extratropical “bomb” cyclone that has formed in the North Atlantic and intensified rapidly, is expected to bring gusty winds, heavy rain and some snow to the region.

Kawano Koichi, who heads a group of atomic bomb survivors in Nagasaki, told NHK that he is deeply concerned about the future of the world including the United States and Japan. Kawano said he ...

They were sitting on the veranda of their house in the Japanese city of Nagasaki ... Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first.

The Met Office has warned of an impending ‘weather bomb’ as Storm Eowyn arrives in the UK this weekend. With rare red weather warnings in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland for wind and different ...

“On the day the bomb dropped, I heard a voice asking for help. When I walked over and held out my hand, the person’s skin melted. I still remember how that felt,” Fukahori told Japan’s ...