There are not many people who have survived a nuclear attack. There is only one person who officially survived two. On this day, 80 years ago, young engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was telling his boss ...
Japan today marks 80 years since an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people - but some say it did not have to happen. A silent prayer was held on Wednesday at 8.15am, ...
It is September 27, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the 3,200-square-kilometre Maralinga atomic weapons test range in outback South Australia, the winds have finally ...
A Japanese man who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki to tell the world of the horrors of the atomic bomb has died at the age of 93. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognised as a ...
North Korea rippled fear throughout the international community after the isolated country claimed it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, a device much more powerful than a nuclear bomb. The H-bomb, ...
General Warns: "U.S. Must Man Defences" From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P. NEW YORK, Sept. 24. - News that Russia had exploded its first atom bomb has startled the peoples of the democratic world ...
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. THE Black Saturday fires burned so fiercely they produced energy the equivalent of 1500 atomic bombs ...
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Two bombs, one surrender and Japan’s war suddenly ended
The atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender in August 1945. The decision ended World War II, but it also left behind one of history’s darkest moral debates. Supporters argue ...
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