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Home References The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima following the detonation of the atomic bomb (Image credit: Getty/ Roger Viollet / Contributor) On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two small cities in Japan. Still the only use of nuclear weapons against…

Home News Satellites saw the Tonga eruption column rise halfway to space on Jan. 15. (Image credit: NASA Earth Obervatory) The volcanic eruption in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga peaked on Jan. 15 with more explosive force than 100 simultaneous Hiroshima bombs, NASA scientists reported on Monday (Jan 24).…

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga: The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said, as survivors on Monday described how the devastating Pacific blast "messed up our brains". © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd...Read More

An eruption occurs at the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai off Tonga, January 14, 2022 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. — Picture courtesy of Tonga Geological Services via Reuters NUKU’ALOFA, Jan 24 — The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of…

I was fortunate to play a small part in a new study, just published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, which shows that the Earth broke yet another heat record last year. Twenty-three scientists from around the world teamed up to analyze thousands of temperature measurements taken throughout the…

Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, including in a meeting with President Obama in 2016, has died. He was 96.  Tsuboi died Oct. 24 in a hospital in Hiroshima in southwestern Japan. The cause of death was…

NAGASAKI HAS COMMEMORATED the 76th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with the mayor calling for the global community to build on a new nuclear ban treaty. Nagasaki was flattened in an atomic inferno that killed 74,000 people, three days after the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima.…

Japan on Friday marked 76 years since the world's first atomic bomb attack, with low-key ceremonies and disappointment over a refusal by Olympics organizers to hold a minute's silence. Survivors, relatives and a handful of foreign dignitaries attended this year's main event in Hiroshima to pray for those killed or…

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Friday marked the 76th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, as the mayor of the Japanese city urged global leaders to unite to eliminate nuclear weapons just as they are united against the coronavirus. A child prays in front of the cenotaph dedicated to…

news, latest-news, hiroshima, nagasaki, St Vincent Primary School, St Vincent Primary School aranda Canberra students are busy folding origami cranes to promote messages of peace and continue the legacy of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who died from radiation illness after the Hiroshima bombing. Year 5 and 6 students at…