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Nagasaki

How do humans make sense of the bomb? A photo essay.

By Robert Del Tredici, Gordon Edwards | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Multimedia, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A choir of Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) sing "Never Again." Hiroshima-Nagasaki 2012. Credit: The Official CTBTO Photostream. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

As atomic bomb survivors age, they’re motivating the next generation on disarmament

By Masako Toki | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

atomic bomb memorial mound hiroshima

Atomic bomb survivors—A model for us in COVID-19 era

By Robert Jay Lifton | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Atomic Bomb Dome in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Credit: Michael Helmer. Public domain image accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

In an era of climate change and COVID, Hiroshima reminds us of another existential threat.

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Herbert Sussan in a newly-reopened school room during filming in Nagasaki in 1946. (Credit: US Army)

From Hollywood to Hiroshima: Retracing my father’s cinematic journey

By Leslie A. Sussan | Nuclear Weapons

atomic bomb casualty commission hiroshima 1947

Do tactical nukes break international law?

By Jaroslav Krasny | Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

What can a pandemic teach us about nuclear threats?

By Ted Lieu | Biosecurity, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Uncategorized

Pope Francis in Hiroshima in November 2019.

A message from Hiroshima on the reality of the atomic bombing

By Hidehiko Yuzaki | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons

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

Pope Francis waves to a crowd.

In Japan, Pope Francis denounces nuclear weapons and questions nuclear power

By Matt Field | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Radiation risks are real. But no cause for radiophobia.

By Mark Wolverton | Analysis

A cross taken from a Nagasaki cathedral after the atomic bombing gets returned 74 years later

By Matt Field | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons