The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people (most of them civilians), and left many more dealing with radioactive fallout and emotional ...

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...

Mayors from across the world concluded a general conference in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sunday by adopting ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

The Superpowers of world politics, the United States of America (USA), China, and Russia, are in a race already generating trepidation because of its ...

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This is a Short History Of The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings A Noiser Production. Hosted by John Hopkins. With thanks to Andrew Rotter, Emeritus Professor of History at Colgate University, and ...

Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." – Albert Einstein Eighty years have passed since the twin horrors ...

Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...

The 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has reignited the debate around nuclear weaponization and the ...

At 11.04 yesterday morning, a bell rang for the first time in 80 years, at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki. The church was at the epicentre of the atomic bomb blast at that time on 9 August 1945. A Mass ...