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Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...
Iain McGregor's new book revisits the events that led to the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings and a slim volume brings together ...
Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...
Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...
This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...
This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and ...
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, ...
As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to meet in Alaska Aug. 15, Pope Leo XIV prayed ...
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Days that changed our world
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 ...
Helfand’s International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, the same year the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was passed at the UN, much due ...
The candle float ceremony took place in Salisbury on August 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings.