Atomic Bomb

Seventy-five years after the atomic bombings, we’re still engaging in a false narrative that attempts to justify the unjustifiable.

Washington could only safely use a fraction of its arsenal without killing Americans with an unintended adverse series of cascading environmental effects, writes Joshua M. Pearce.

Nobody can emerge from a nuclear war as a winner, says a US team of scientists, and the planet they inherit may be ravaged by mass starvation. Their scenario is stark. The year is 2025, they suggest. A dangerous tension has grown more…

"We urgently need sensible action to reduce and eliminate nuclear risk."

Seventy-four years ago today the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. This nuclear weapon resulted in the deaths of an estimated 140,000 individuals. Three days later on August 9, a similar attack…

On August 6, 1945 the Japanese city of Hiroshima was annihilated in a flash by a single uranium bomb. It razed and burnt 70 percent of all buildings, killed an estimated 140,000 Japanese civilians and Korean laborers, irradiated the soil…

2018.01.01 ～ 2018.12.29 The special exhibition”The Twinkling Stars Know Everything ：Collection of Memories by Fathers and Mothers of the Annihilated First-Year Hiroshima Itchu Students” Period January 1 (Mon.) ~ December 29 (Sat.),…