‘Young’ A-bomb survivor passing on her mother’s Nagasaki ordeal
YOKOHAMA--Hibakusha Masako Wada has always felt stigmatized by the thought that her accounts of the atomic bombing of ...
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Nuclear Radiation Harms Girls, Women Disproportionately
By design, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a major city would be devastating. The explosion of intense heat and radiation would kill tens of ...
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Girls and women disproportionately harmed by nuclear radiation
World War II, a report co-authored by environmental studies researcher Amanda Nichols finds that nuclear radiation ...
Atomic bomb survivors leave Japan to attend UN conference on nuclear weapons ban
Japanese atomic bomb survivors have left for New York to attend a United Nations conference on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Why the atomic bomb didn’t really end the Second World War
Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...
Man survived the two worst atomic bombs in history just days apart that killed almost 250,000 people
Towards the end of the Second World War, US President Harry Truman thought to speed up Japan ’s surrender by dropping two ...
Hidankyo criticizes Japan for skipping anti-nuke meeting
The co-chairman of a Nobel laureate organization of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors strongly criticized the ...
A-bomb survivors protest Japan govt.'s absence from nuclear weapons ban meeting
Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have lodged a protest with the Japanese government over its ...
A-bomb survivor aged 80 moves back to Hiroshima to follow in late pastor dad's footsteps
Yasuo, who once worked in documentary filmmaking in Tokyo, was inspired to become a pastor by Koko's father, Reverend Kiyoshi ...
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MIT prepares for nuclear attack
In the early 1960s, the Institute grappled with going beyond “Duck and Cover.” The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ...
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Atomic shadows: Haunting reminders of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic bombs were supposed to strike elsewhere The American bomb "Little Boy" destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing approximately 90,000 people. Three days later, Nagasaki was attacked by ...