Like many, I entered The New Yorker through the cartoon door. The first cartoon I loved, and remember to this day, featured a ...

YR4 has a one-in-32 chance of hitting Earth according to NASA scientists, and would be 500 times more powerful than the ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya officially announced on Feb. 18 that Japan will not attend an anti-nuclear weapons meeting at the United Nations in March, drawing indignation from the 2024 Nobel Peace ...

Concerns rise over asteroid 2024 YR4, now with a 2.6% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032, according to NASA. Initially ...

YR4 collides with Earth in 2032, it could land anywhere within a narrow band stretching from the northern part of South ...

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has received a record number of visitors for the second year in a row. The museum in the ...

Everyone knows the story of the first atomic bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ...

Trump confirmed on Saturday that he had ordered the Pentagon to release a shipment of 900kg bombs for Israel, which was blocked by his predecessor Biden. "We released them. We released them today ...

The Soviet news agency Tass responded, laughably blaming the blast on large-scale construction work, while reminding everyone that Soviet foreign minister Molotov had announced in 1947 that the USSR ...

The mayors of Hiroshima ... War II atomic bombings, officials said Wednesday. In a joint letter to Trump, the mayors urge him to come and "listen to the testimonies of the hibakusha (bomb ...

She was married to Alexander Langsdorf, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, which built the world’s first atomic bombs. She listened to the scientists who worked on the ...

The names of the 29 victims, including a woman pregnant with twins, were read aloud and a minute's silence was held as a public inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing got under way. The opening ...