moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her unconscious and levelled swathes of the Japanese city. Now 86, she is eager to be among the first to see the film “Oppenheimer” at ...

An unexploded US bomb dating from the Second World War that had been buried at a Japanese airport has exploded ... Forces and ...

The meltdown and mass evacuation triggered a global panic, with countries as far away as Germany vowing to shut their nuclear plants. Japan also switched off its reactors in the wake of the disaster.

Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to a sudden end, but was it right to use it? The bomb was dropped to ...

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on August 6 and 9, 1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have ... many who survived the explosions but died later from radiation ...

Third-from-left Terumi Tanaka of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations ... 8, 2025. The nuclear abolition group won the most recent Nobel Peace Prize.

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of ...