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Thousands died when the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. But was the US justified? We debate...

Selected quotations from US officials about the dropping of nuclear weapons on Japan which demonstrate that the bombing was not to end the war, but was to issue a warning to its Cold War rival.

Nuclear workers plagued by leukaemia, cancers and other illnesses Some workers developed cancer, leukemia and other illnesses. The same held true for workers at other nuclear facilities across the nation. The number of potentially eligible workers across the nation is uncertain. Likewise, the number of employees potentially affected at West Valley could be in the thousands when accounting for temporary workers. “This was particularly troubling if the same workers were hired repeatedly as temporaries and received high doses each time,” In addition, the exposure of growing numbers of indiv...

Michael Benanav / Searchlight New Mexico and is republished here by permission. For most New Mexico businesses, the arrival of COVID-19 wreaked havoc, caused shutdowns or threatened doom. But for one enterprise — potentially one of the world’s largest nuclear waste sites — the pandemic offered an unusual opportunity. A long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in the southeastern New Mexico desert was rushed through the approval process during the pandemic, according to New Mexico’s congressional delegation, environmentalists and other opponents. Typically, project foes would have ...