Why Did America Choose to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? We look at the history and evidence of the devastating choice that ...

The recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has sent shivers across Russia, Japan, and the United States, not merely because of its sheer force but because its energy release ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

There are not many people who have survived a nuclear attack. There is only one person who officially survived two. On this day, 80 years ago, young engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was telling his boss ...

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Eighty years ago today, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in the ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...