Hiroshima

This year, millions of people around the world mobilised in protest to highlight the dire emergency facing our planet. Could 2019 prove to be the year when talk turned to action on the climate crisis? We looked back at some of the biggest stories of the yea…

In the throes of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was planning to test a massive nuclear bomb in the Arctic Circle. But in a letter to then-President John F. Kennedy, a young Michigan girl was most concerned about the North Poles most famous resident. Please …

BOSTON (AP) In the throes of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was planning to test a massive nuclear bomb in the Arctic Circle. But in a letter to then-President John F. Kennedy, a young Michigan girl was most concerned about the North Pole’s most famous resid…

Click here to read Part Two. Head in the Sand Approach Information on the colossal destructive effects of use of nuclear weapons, based on the horrendous experiences of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has been in the public domain for wel…

Michelles parents frequently discussed current events with her. The height of the Cold War was nearing, and Americans were wary of what the Soviet Union was about to do next. Kennedy was advising families to build nuclear fallout shelters in case of an atomic…

My most mysterious reading experience of 2019 began with a dream, in which a friend arranged for me to meet with her literary agent. He had read my novel manuscript and told me he liked it very much, then handed me a musty pile of books. He instructed me to…

Day 10 Hiroshima We're taking another Bullet Train today, and this time it will transport us to Hiroshima. This city is infamous as the target of the first-ever atomic bomb, dropped by the US at the end of the Second World War. You'll tour this rebuilt city …

A still from The Breast Milk of the Volcano by Unknown Fields.Credit: Unknown Fields Ecovisionaries Royal Academy of Arts, London. Until 23 February. Sustainability demands creative thinking. At the Royal Academy, architects, artists and designers are col…

A still from The Breast Milk of the Volcano by Unknown Fields.Credit: Unknown Fields Ecovisionaries Royal Academy of Arts, London. Until 23 February. Sustainability demands creative thinking. At the Royal Academy, architects, artists and designers are col…

Key point: While the B-29 was responsible for the three deadliest bombing raids in historythe firebombing of Tokyo and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasakiits successor the B-50 never dropped a bomb in anger. Quiz time! Which secret American milita…