On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb “Little Boy” exploded over Hiroshima with a force of 15 kilotons, killing tens of thousands instantly . Three days later, “Fat Man” struck Nagasaki with even greater ...

Nuclear weapons have shaped global politics for decades, but their destructive power is almost impossible to comprehend. From ...

HIROSHIMA (Reuters) - Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion ...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is known to be the sole individual recognised to have survived both atomic attacks in Japan during the ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...

For the first time in decades, the number of nuclear warheads is on the rise. Nuclear testing is back on the table and global ...

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

The quote of the day by Nihon Hidankyo carries a sharp warning about human suffering and humanitys future. History shows ...

A visitor uses a smartphone to photograph a life-size cutaway model of "Fat Man," the plutonium-type atomic bomb, at the ...