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How American journalists covered the first use of the atomic bomb
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, Aug. 9, 1945. CC BY-SAMore than seventy-five years ago this...
The WWII Tokyo firebombing was the deadliest air raid in history, with a death toll exceeding those...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOne million Japanese people lost their homes after the US bombing of Tokyo during World War...
Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb"
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoNiels Bohr Getty Images/Bettmann In Christopher Nolan's hit biopic "Oppenheimer," real-life Danish...
Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago....
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA composite image showing Albert Einstein around 1939 and nuclear explosion in French Polynesia in...
'Oppenheimer' premieres in Japan. Some Hiroshima survivors, Japanese residents are distressed.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe Oscars' best picture winner "Oppenheimer" premiered in Japan on Friday, nearly nine months after...
Christopher Nolan Explains Why You Don’t See the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in...
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn the new MSNBC documentary “To End All War: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” the impact of the...
Nagasaki marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing with mayor urging world to abolish nuclear weapons
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoNagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city Wednesday with the mayor...
Here's why the pilot of Enola Gay had no regrets about dropping the first atom bomb designed by...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA view of Hiroshima after the dropping of the atom bomb on August 6, 1945.Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty...
Hiroshima mayor calls nuclear deterrence 'folly' as city marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHiroshima officials criticized growing support for nuclear weapons as a detterent resulting from...
The nuclear arms race's legacy at home: Toxic contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPackaging excavated radioactive materials at the Hanford site in Washington state. USDOEChristopher...