An “extraordinary, ordinary man” who talked a “self-radicalised lone wolf terrorist” out of exploding a device in the maternity wing of a hospital has been praised by a judge who jailed the potential ...

More than seven decades after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II, the site of the devastation remains one of the most popular ...

Over 70 years after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the site of the devastation is now one of the country’s most popular visitor attractions.

In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President Truman's government decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

Athens Police officers guard near the entrance of a building following an explosion Apartment Blast (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) An ...

Writing about nuclear war is difficult because it is easy. J Robert Oppenheimer himself, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, set the tone with his paraphrasing of the Bhagavad Gita after the ...

Police revealed that anonymous calls to Greek media warned of the attack outside the Hellenic Train offices in Athens at 8.53pm local time. The company was involved in a horrific rail crash between a ...

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