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Japan

Oppenheimer’s second coming

By Gregory Kulacki | Nuclear Weapons

Fukushima wastewater issue will further divide a nation, split families, and cause ‘atomic divorce’

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Why Japan should stop its Fukushima nuclear wastewater ocean release

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Watching Ukraine, South Korea and Japan eye nuclear weapons. Here’s what the US should do.

By Sayuri Romei | Nuclear Weapons

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

US Navy ships re-fueling at sea in the South China Sea.

Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan

By Larry Diamond, James O. Ellis, Jr. | Special Topics

Poll: Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans don’t support using nuclear weapons against North Korea

By David M. Allison, Stephen Herzog | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The legacy of Shinzo Abe: a Japan divided about nuclear weapons

By Sayuri Romei | Nuclear Weapons

In memoriam: Some of our decades of coverage of the atomic bombings of Japan

By | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Fukushima Sea Water Sampling-3. The damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station as seen during a sea-water sampling boat journey, 7 November 2013. IAEA marine monitoring experts were sent to Japan to observe sea water sampling and data analysis. Photo accessed by Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Why Japan’s plan for Fukushima wastewater lacks public trust

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk