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The head of the island’s economic office attended commemorations in Japan for the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its ...
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...
Opinion

Days that changed our world

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." – Albert Einstein Eighty years have passed since the twin horrors ...
An outcry over alleged violence earlier this year within the Koryo High School baseball team had prompted calls on social ...
Bullet train services in western and southwestern Japan were halted Sunday due to heavy rain, operator JR West said.
Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...
On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...
The atomic bombings of Japan might well be one of the most important events in human history — so maybe it's no surprise that they're also one of the strangest.
Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She ...
Wednesday marked 80 years since the United States bombed Hiroshima during World War II. It was a moment that changed warfare ...
Treated as outcasts for decades, these survivors and their children are now speaking out against global nuclear rearmament.