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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 ...
The population of Disneyland's It's a Small World ride unexpectedly increased in early August when activists left an eye-catching doll along the mechanical river. The out-of-place figure was covered ...
This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and ...
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 Spelunker Thought She Found Trash in a Cave. It Was Actually Evidence of a Lost Civilization.
This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, ...
An outcry over alleged violence earlier this year within the Koryo High School baseball team had prompted calls on social ...
Patrick Penney's granduncle had a key role in the Manhattan project, and as well as being on the plane that dropped the ...
A nuclear winter - a feared scenario following a nuclear war - 'would cause an unfathomable loss of life' numbering billions ...
THE Hiroshima and Nagasaki annual candle float down the river Avon took place on Wednesday, August 6. The event has been held for nearly 40 years, apart from during the COVID-19 pandemic. The float ...
Opinion
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 ...