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 ...

At the end of a week in which the news from Gaza and the West Bank was increasingly grim, and there was the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many ...

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

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 ...

NEVER use nuclear weapons again, or we’re finished,” 93-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki bombing Hiroshi Nishioka said at ...

Pope Leo XIV renews his appeal for peace, calling on the world to pray for "an end to all wars" during his Sunday Angelus ...

The atomic bombings of Japan might well be one of the most important events in human history — so maybe it's no surprise that they're also one of the strangest.