The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its ...

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 ...

A nuclear winter - a feared scenario following a nuclear war - 'would cause an unfathomable loss of life' numbering billions ...

The head of the island’s economic office attended commemorations in Japan for the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

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

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 ...

Eighty years ago, one nuclear bomb incinerated over 100,000 people in Hiroshima. Today, the U.S. has the equivalent of 50,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs.

At the Nagasaki peace conference, joined by representatives from 138 cities in 16 countries, discussions were held on ...

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, ...

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...

Allied forces killed over 1.2 million German civilians in World War II bombings and ground attacks on German cities. In ...