Hiroshima

MARTIN AMIS HAS called Vasily Grossman “the Tolstoy of the USSR,” and Grossman’s vast World War II novel “Life and Fate” is ample support for such a…

Widows of victims of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre and the Israel Olympic Committee on Tuesday vowed to continue their fight for an opening…

I had just arrived in Washington, DC, and of all things I needed a red wig for my Halloween costume as the Russian spy Anna Chapman. Lo and behold,…

AJewish roots trip to Japan? Well, not exactly. Jews number about 2,000 in this country of 127 million, so the Jewish presence doesn’t exactly stand…

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon laid a wreath at the Hiroshima memorial in Japan on Wednesday and said "in order to prevent another Hiroshima,…

HIROSHIMA — The Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace laureates from the last four decades gathered Friday to support the end of nuclear weapons at a…

HIROSHIMA, Japan — The Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace Prize laureates from the last four decades gathered Friday at a hotel a few miles from ground…

Next Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon will become the first senior Israeli government official to lay a wreath at the memorial in…

TOKYO  — The Japanese city of Nagasaki marked the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Monday with a record 32 countries attending —…

A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima or…

Public anxiety about Iran's nuclear intentions is focused on the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, which in many respects - in both the public debate…

One hundred and seven years after the Wright Brothers’ first successful powered flight, and more than four decades after Neil Armstrong first stepped…

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator called for a global nuclear weapons ban on Monday but insisted all nations - including his own - have a right to…

"The crime that was committed in Hiroshima must never be repeated," Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili told reporters at the Foreign…

Six days after a snazzy Beverly Hills wedding, 29-year-old Lisa Fineberg Cook, self-styled Jewish American Princess, is on her way to Nagoya, Japan,…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the sites of atomic bombings in World War II, are teaming up to make a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics that will emphasize…

Hiroshima's mayor urged global leaders on Thursday to back US President Barack Obama's call to abolish nuclear weapons as Japan marked the 64th…

Hiroshima's mayor urged the world to back US President Barack Obama's call to abolish nuclear weapons. Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba spoke Thursday on the…

A majority of Americans surveyed believe dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was the right thing to do, but support was weaker among…

"All you'll get there is justice," said the grizzled character in an old Western movie, warning away a gunslinger from a gallows-prone town. "And…