Hiroshima

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The second season of an AMC-TV drama series follows the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and a number of bizarre deaths haunting a community. “The Terror: Infamy” is set to premiere Monday and stars Derek Mio and or…

Mayor Tomihisa Taue told mourners at Nagasaki's 74th anniversary of its devastation by a US World War II bomb that nuclear weapons must be eliminated. The August 9, 1945 bombing three days after a similar device devastated Hiroshima killed some 70,000 Nagasa…

Seventy-four years ago on August 6, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of anot…

"Fat Man" was the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date (the other being "Little Boy"), and its detonation caused th…

The atomic cloud rises over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Wikimedia, CC BY As Boris Johnson entered 10 Downing Street, he was required to write the so-called “letters of last resort” – his instructions should the United Kingdom be hit by a nuclear strike. At th…

We like our anniversaries in blocks of fifty or one hundred at a push well tolerate a twenty five. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (2015). Next year, well remember the end of the Second World War, the f…

American Values, an excellent Twitter account which publishes daily information about US atrocities, has just posted a thread for the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and I think everyone should have a look at it today. It reads as foll…

Nagasaki, Japan, Aug 7, 2019 / 04:42 pm (CNA).- An Ohio college is returning to Nagasaki's Immaculate Conception Cathedral a wooden cross that was recovered from the cathedral's remains after the Aug. 9, 1945 atomic strike on the city. Dr. Tanya Maus, direct…

Why should the U.S. tie its own hands with that policy? CNN correspondent Jake Tapper asked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). This leading question during last weeks Democratic debate immediately opened up a longtime policy fissure over U.S. nuclear strategy. Th…

The 74th anniversary of the United States' nuclear attack on Japan came and went without comment from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), who last week said during the Democratic primary debate that America must give up its ability to strike first with a nucle…