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Nobel Peace Prize Winner with Ties to Vermont Book Calls for Nuclear Weapons Ban
On Aug. 6 and 9, 2025, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the ...
The doctor who survived Nagasaki – and the horrors he saw
Eighty years on, a doctor’s chronicles of the horrors he witnessed in the wake of the atom bomb are being republished ...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner calls for nuclear weapons ban as 80th anniversary of atomic bombings near
In a press release, the Nobel Committee emphasized the significance of awarding the prize to Nihon Hidankyo, with the ...
‘My God, what have we done?’
The words of the co-pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima still echo 80 years on. Could the devastation it wrought ...
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Unique documents from Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb crews for sale
An eye-witness drawing of the first atom bomb's blast is just one amazing Second World War relic for sale today at Paul ...
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Eighty years later, downwinders remember hearing the blast
Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother’s name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear ...
What Happened at Hiroshima: BBC World Service documentary for BBC One and iPlayer asks if we can stop history repeating itself
On the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jordan Dunbar hears from the only people to have ever ...
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When Did a B-25 Crash into the Empire State Building?
The incident accelerated scrutiny of military and civilian flight paths over major cities, influencing legislation about air ...
Building the Bomb
Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...
80 years after first nuclear bomb test, New Mexico downwinders remember hearing the blast
Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother's name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear bomb test. As dark ...
Oppenheimer, Epstein and other nuclear bombs
Eighty years ago this week, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his crew ushered in the nuclear age, when they successfully ...
Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still Threatens a “Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.