The Strategist

Bookshelf: a people-centric history of the Hiroshima bombing

As the title implies, Iain MacGregor’s The Hiroshima Men is a people-centric history of the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. In my view it’s only partially successful in that aim. In telling the ...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 80 years after the atomic bomb, the world still grapples with the fallout

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...
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What really prevents nations from making nuclear bombs

Nuclear bombs do not rely on size, they rely on physics. Here is how chain reactions and hydrogen bombs unleash power on a ...
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80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of new nuclear warfare

HIROSHIMA, Japan — For more than half a century, chimes have rung out across the Japanese city of Hiroshima every morning at exactly 8:15. The solemn ritual marks the precise moment Aug. 6, 1945, when ...
Reuters

Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since A-bomb

Hiroshima mayor warns against global military buildup U.S. and Russia hold 90% of nuclear warheads Nuclear attack survivors face discrimination, numbers fall below 100,000 HIROSHIMA, Japan, Aug 6 ...
Newsweek

Hiroshima Mayor Issues Nuclear Bomb Warning to West

The world should abandon nuclear deterrence, the mayor of Hiroshima has said at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary since his city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb. Kazumi Matsui warned on ...
The Nation

What Does It Mean to Remember Hiroshima as Bombs Drop on Gaza?

This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow. Ad Policy A huge cloud resulting from the massive fires started by “Little ...
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Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

August 6, 1945 marked the beginning of the end of World War II when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima *** short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb ...
Wired

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...
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James Cameron wants to put you in the middle of a nuclear bomb blast

Cameron’s upcoming film, Ghosts of Hiroshima, will focus on the aftermath of the atomic bombs in Japan - Universal History Archive/Getty “This might be the most challenging film I ever make.” So says ...
USA Today

Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since atomic bomb

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Exactly 80 years since an atomic bomb was used in war for the first time, thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Hiroshima on Wednesday, as the city's mayor ...