WUNC

Japan marks 80 years since the Hiroshima atomic bomb

Eighty years ago, today, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, just before the end of World War II. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that the voices of survivors opposing ...
NBC New York

80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of rising nuclear threat

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders ...
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Demon Core: The Unused Third Atomic Bomb of WW2

The desert can hold many secrets. The desert near Los Alamos in New Mexico just after World War 2 held perhaps the biggest secret of them all. Learn more about the Most Dangerous Science Experiment in ...
The Oak RidgerOpinion

Leaders who make nuclear threats forget history and should be removed | Opinion

On this 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is worth reflecting on the horrors of history ushered in with the ...
PBS

How the Atomic Bomb Redefined Geopolitics — 80 Years On

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...
cnycentral

Syracuse University Professor speaks on 80th anniversary of atomic bombing of Japan

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Wednesday marks 80 years since the United States dropped its first nuclear bomb on Japan, an event that reshaped global history. Remembrance services were held in Hiroshima, where ...
Opinion

US nuclear weapons testing can forever scar a nation. Just ask the Marshall Islands

Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.
The Cincinnati Enquirer

As World War II ended 80 years ago, here's how Cincinnati reacted

The Enquirer archives show the local reactions to the end of World War II. Paul Tibbets, the “Enola Gay” pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb, had been a pre-med student at the University of ...
Fox 12 Oregon

From bombs to glass: Hanford site can now transform nuclear waste

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...

Germany news: Bavarian premier calls for nuclear comeback

Bavarian Premier Markus Söder has proposed building small nuclear "mini reactors." Meanwhile, a World War II bomb has been ...

Nuclear Startup Fermi Invokes Manhattan Project in AI Race

US efforts to develop artificial intelligence systems and the nuclear-energy infrastructure needed to power them are ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month

The quandaries posed by the nuclear film pantheon are the same ones experts in the nuclear threat reduction community face ...