The people of Nagasaki had no time to seek even a decent shelter. However, the Nagasaki University Medical School Hospital ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading ...

If nuclear war breaks out, it won’t matter how many studies were done. There won’t be anyone left to read them.

A Japanese organization made up of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs is getting well-deserved attention ...

For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...

At 8:15 a.m.—as survivors still remember—came a flash of light, followed by a shock wave that blew people and buildings apart ...

Of course, their words rarely are. For me, I confess, these concerns are simpler, as I have an extremely intimate ...

And then, barely weeks before the European war ended, the world’s first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on ...

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Nuclear weapons, he noted, have only been used twice, both against Japan. The Manhattan Project that developed the bomb was ...

Used to contain, memorialise and ward off nuclear disaster, concrete is the primary building material of the atomic age | ...

A Japanese organization made up of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs is getting well-deserved attention ...