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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLeo Szilard, pictured circa 1945, circulated a petition to other Manhattan Project scientists,...
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...
Iconic Atomic Bomb Blast Imagery From Japan Almost Never Happened
THE WARZONE via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBettmann via Wikimedia Commons/unknown author via Wikimedia commons/Ted H. Lambert via Wikimedia...
Hiroshima’s nuclear history sounds an urgent warning for G-7 summit
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHIROSHIMA — The cost of war is ever-present in this nuclear-scarred city, which this week is playing...
Hiroshima marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing
Military Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTOKYO — Hiroshima officials criticized growing support for nuclear weapons as a deterrent resulting from uneasiness over Russia’s war in Ukraine and...
An Atomic Bomb History Expert on the ‘Terrible Moral Dilemma’ in Oppenheimer
Time via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in the 2023 film, Oppenheimer. Credit - Universal Pictures...
This Japanese city rose from the ashes. Now it welcomes millions
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1945, the American military detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing thousands of people...
At Hiroshima G7, bomb survivors grapple with a disarmament dream deferred
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe last time a U.S. president visited Hiroshima, atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori was filled with...
Flashback: ‘My God!’: Eyewitness accounts reach Detroit after Hiroshima bombing in 1945
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe United States dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 78 years ago today. The following story,...
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...