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Nagasaki mayor warns of new threat of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since atomic bomb

The western Japanese city was levelled on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, ...

Why surviving the Nagasaki atomic bomb made these women feel ashamed

Women who survived the Nagasaki bomb tell CNN about its impact. Eighty years after the US bombings of Nagasaki, aging ...

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Haunting photos show what happened that day in 1945.

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Nichols: 'The atomic bomb did not win the war; it ended it'

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

80 years after the atomic bomb: A photo gallery from Hiroshima

A bird flies past the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Monday, August 4, 2025 as Japan will mark 80th anniversary of the WWII U ...

The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

Descendants of atomic bomb plane crewman and double survivor team up to abolish nuclear weapons

When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was onboard both of the ...

See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Here’s how big our nuclear arsenal is 80 years after the first atomic bomb

The first series of thermonuclear tests took place on Nov. 1, 1952, on the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll ...
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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...