In the ruins of his small tuberculosis hospital in Nagasaki, Dr. Tatsuichiro Akizuki likened the situation to the Black Death pandemic that ravaged Europe in the 1300s. A second wave of radiation illnesses and deaths swept through Nagasaki in late …

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts toward making a nuclear-weapons-free world.

In the ruins of his small tuberculosis hospital in Nagasaki, Dr. Tatsuichiro Akizuki likened the situation to the Black Death pandemic that ravaged Europe in the 1300s. A second wave of radiation illnesses and deaths swept through Nagasaki in late …

The breakthrough agreement came on the 18th day of marathon talks between Tehran and the so-called P5+1 – the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany – in Vienna.

The back roads of America are speckled with relics of what could have been Armageddon in America, if the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had come to a head. Though the Cold War never got hot, America was prepared for the worst, with …

Sprinkled throughout the back roads of America are the remains of Armageddon. Or what could have been Armageddon had the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union suddenly gone hot. In the coming months, the National Park Service …

The enrichment complex there is buried so far under a mountain that Israel fears it could not wipe out the site and its nearly 3,000 centrifuges with airstrikes. The United States has only one bunker-busting weapon that might accomplish the job. Over …

The documents which include the flightplan (pictured) and eyewitness account of the bombing were compiled by the co-pilot of the plane which carried out the mission have been put up for sale.

An unusual and very exciting form of carbon – that can be created by drawing on paper- looks to hold the key to real-time, high throughput DNA sequencing, a technique that would revolutionize medical research and testing. Led by Dr Jiri Cervenka and …

North Korea appears poised to expand its nuclear program over the next five years and in a worst case scenario could possess 100 atomic arms by 2020, US researchers warned Tuesday. Unveiling the first results of what will be a 15-month study, Joel Wit, senior fellow at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said […]