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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...
What ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t tell you about atomic bombs
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer. On July 21, 2023, Christropher Nolan’s Oppenheimer...
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...
G-7 leaders likely to focus on the war in Ukraine and tensions in Asia at summit in Hiroshima
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe symbolism will be palpable when leaders of the world's rich democracies sit down in Hiroshima, a...
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...
Visiting Our Past: Decent WNC people caught up in indecency
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSecrets were secrets for a reason," Celia Szapka thought as she boarded a train for Oak Ridge,...
Hiroshima mayor calls nuclear deterrence 'folly' as city marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing
Associated Press via AOL· 10 months agoHiroshima officials criticized growing support for nuclear weapons as a detterent resulting from...