Hiroshima

1 of 4 | The wrecked framework of the Museum of Science and Industry as it appeared shortly after the blast in Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 1945. City officials decided to preserve this building as a memorial, though they had at first planned to rebuild it. Wednesday is the 80th…

Sitting in her Melbourne lounge room, Tetsuko 'Tess' McKenzie flips through faded photographs with her family. But one image has never left her mind — the blinding flash of 6 August 1945 when she witnessed the world's first nuclear bomb strike the Japanese city of Hiroshima. "I was standing on…

Hiroshima, Japan - On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with Hiroshima Prefectural Government and the Hiroshima Organization for Peace (HOPe), will hold a youth dialogue for international peace on 6 August 2025. The event will…

I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the doctor said I wouldn’t last more than three days. These are the words of Kazumi Kuwahara, a third-generation hibakusha – a survivor of the…

Eighty years ago, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the nuclear age with weapons of previously unimagined destructive power. Since then, an arms race led to a global inventory of 70,000 nuclear weapons, followed by a period of arms ...Read More

Book Review: ‘The Hiroshima Men’ is a reminder of the horrific human costs of atomic attackRead More

live An earthquake has struck off the coast of Alaska. (Image: Getty) A tsunami warning has been issued in a US state after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast. The alert includes the coastal areas of Alaska from Kennedy Entrance, Alaska, 40 miles southwest of Homer, to Unimak…

Katsuko Kuwamoto, the atomic bombing survivor in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, points to a map showing the location where the bomb was dropped. Top right, Ms Kuwamoto shows an illustration of how the victims of the atomic bombing looked when they scrambled for safety, and the bottom right…

NINOSHIMA, Japan — Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago. For the 47-year-old researcher, unearthing even the tiniest fragments on Ninoshima Island…

US President Donald Trump compared the recent US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Trump stated, “I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war. This ended the…