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“Firebringer” at City Repertory Theatre, how the bombing of Hiroshima was reported, how Enrico Fermi experimented during the first atom blast.

Seventy-eight years ago, today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, we bombed Nagasaki. Within months, about 200,000 people had died, with many more injured or suffering long term effects of radiation. Since that day, we have lived in the shadow of nuclear weapons, with the chances of their use […]

In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 s before

The May 1, 1946 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featured the declassified version of the June 1945 Franck Report, which argued for not bombing Japanese cities.

Morimura detailed the atrocities committed by the Japanese program — called Unit 731 — in a widely sold book, “Akuma no Hoshoku,” or “The Devil’s Gluttony.”

In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an - Norman Solomon for Antiwar.com Original

Over 100 medical journals are simultaneously sounding the alarm that the potential for world-ending nuclear conflict is "great and growing" amidst states like Russia dangerously stockpiling their doomsday payloads.

In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an

In its determination to become the superior military power, the U.S. is ignoring historical actions that many consider war crimes.

The situation couldn’t be simpler: we need to abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us.