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Hiroshima

Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Video: How many people were killed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

By Erik English | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk

What do Americans really think about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

By Scott D. Sagan, Gina Sinclair | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Why I teach my students the racial politics of the Bomb

By John Streamas | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Erico Platt looks at the disarmament exhibition that she staged in 2022, "Three Quarters of a Century After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Hibakusha—Brave Survivors Working for a Nuclear-Free World." Photo by UNODA/Diane Barnes.

Respect for hibakusha, and hope in younger generations

By Masako Toki | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

My grandfather helped build the bomb. ‘Oppenheimer’ sanitized its impacts

By Emily Strasser | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Failed visionaries: Scientific activism and the Cold War

By Anna Pluff, John R. Emery | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

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

What can we learn from ‘Oppenheimer’ about the blind spots in nuclear storytelling?

By Shampa Biswas | Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

A Japanese scholar gives her personal view on J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Shiho Nakazawa | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

Hiroshima Memories

By Hideko Tamura Friedman | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Personal Essay

Gadget is readied for the Trinity test.

A foul and awesome display

By Kenneth T. Bainbridge | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Zelensky and Kishida at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 21, 2023 - crop

In Hiroshima, the G7 economies leverage global security gains

By Marina Lorenzini | Nuclear Weapons