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Special coverage: Hiroshima & Nagasaki at 75

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atomic bomb dome army military hiroshima nuclear bomb

Counting the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Alex Wellerstein | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons

Japanese military leaders aboard the USS Missouri

Japanese military leaders aboard the USS Missouri

What Europeans believe about Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why it matters

By Benoît Pelopidas, Kjølv Egeland | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Risk

A barefoot boy waiting in line and staring ahead at a crematorium in Nagasaki, with his dead baby brother strapped to his back. Photo by US Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell

A barefoot boy waiting in line and staring ahead at a crematorium in Nagasaki, with his dead baby brother strapped to his back. Photo by US Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell

Memorial Days: the racial underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

By Elaine Scarry | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor—book review by plasma physicist who heads Large Hadron Collider

By Lucio Rossi | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

B-52 bombers in the Arizona desert,

B-52 bombers in the Arizona desert,

Arms control 2.0? With open source tools, desktop sleuths can go where governments won’t

By Henrietta Wilson, Olamide Samuel, Dan Plesch | Nuclear Risk

Sina Athar clinic after a June 30 explosion.

Sina Athar clinic after a June 30 explosion.

Experts blame Israel for the recent explosions. Why won’t Iran?

By Farhad Rezaei | Nuclear Risk

War and the environment: The disturbing and under-researched legacy of depleted uranium weapons

By Elena Bruess, Joe Snell, Madhurita Goswami | Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

A satellite image of China's demonstration plutonium reprocessing plant.

A satellite image of China's demonstration plutonium reprocessing plant.

China is speeding up its plutonium recycling programs

By Hui Zhang | Nuclear Risk

Why the atomic bombing of Hiroshima would be illegal today

By Katherine E. McKinney, Scott D. Sagan, Allen S. Weiner | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons

A small Chinese flag placed in front of an empty chair.

A small Chinese flag placed in front of an empty chair.

“What about China?” and the threat to US–Russian nuclear arms control

By David M. Allison, Stephen Herzog | Nuclear Weapons

Indian nuclear forces, 2020

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Notebook

Preventing the preventable: Strengthening international controls to thwart radiological terrorism

By Kenneth C. Brill, John H. Bernhard | Nuclear Risk