moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her unconscious and levelled swathes of the Japanese city. Now 86, she is eager to be among the first to see the film “Oppenheimer” at ...
Japan on August 6, 1945. It was a uranium-based bomb with an explosive power of about 15 kilotons, which would be considered a battlefield tactical nuclear weapon today. 40% of the population ...
Third-from-left Terumi Tanaka of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations ... 8, 2025. The nuclear abolition group won the most recent Nobel Peace Prize.
Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but was it right to use it? The bomb was dropped to ...
Photo by Paul Treadway/UPI Hibakusha is the Japanese term for atomic bomb survivors. "We are old, but the nuclear situation remains very severe. I want to make a stronger appeal about what the ...