The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ultimately led to the end of World War II. The motivation and secrecy ...

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

The survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have had to live through several stages of trauma. First came the horrors of August 6th and August 9th 1945: the blinding flash, the ...

In “Preventing Nuclear War,” an essay published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 1981, the Harvard law professor Roger Fisher imagines a President in the White House, discussing nuclear ...

On August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb on the populous city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing a quarter of a million people. Eighty years — almost to the day — since the devastation ...

Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA, and author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025). At a time of growing catastrophic risks posed ...

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly ...

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer on June 2, 1964, in Princeton, New Jersey. History is not just a record of what happened, it is a well of wisdom we can draw from to guide our actions today and in the future ...

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...