Atomic bomb dropped on Japan's Hiroshima 75 years ago still ... - NBC News
WEBAug 6, 2020 — The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago — marking the end of World War II. Survivors still live with the consequences.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75th anniversary of atomic bombings - BBC
WEBAug 8, 2020 — It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading to the end of World War Two. Getty Images. The devastated city of...
Looking back at the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima ... - NPR
WEBAug 11, 2023 — Just after the U.S. successfully tested an atomic bomb in July 1945, Allied leaders, including Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman, met in a summit known as the Potsdam Conference.
Opinion | The Last Survivors of an Atomic Bomb Have a Story to Tell
WEBAug 6, 2024 — A view across the Motoyasu River of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima. The bombs killed an estimated 200,000 men, women and children and maimed countless more. In Hiroshima 50,000 of the city’s...
Hiroshima: Atomic Blast That Changed The World Turns 75 - NPR
WEBAug 6, 2020 — The dawn of the nuclear age began with a blinding, flesh-melting blast directly above the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. It was 8:16 a.m. on a Monday, the start of another workday in a...
Hiroshima governor says nuclear disarmament ... - Associated Press News
WEBAug 6, 2024 — The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II and Japan’s nearly half-century aggression in Asia.
Atomic scientists keep ‘Doomsday Clock’ as close to ... - NBC News
WEBJan 23, 2024 — WASHINGTON — Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their “Doomsday Clock” set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia’s actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine,...
Hiroshima bomb: Japan marks 75 years since nuclear attack - BBC
WEBAug 6, 2020 — Bells have tolled in Hiroshima, Japan, to mark the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb. But memorial events were scaled back this year because of the pandemic.
Nagasaki marks 78th anniversary of atomic ... - Associated Press News
WEBAug 9, 2023 — Nagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the the U.S dropping an atomic bomb on the city Wednesday, with its mayor urging nuclear states and those under their nuclear umbrella, including Japan, to not justify nuclear weapons for deterrence and go …
Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight - BBC
WEBJan 23, 2024 — The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by J Robert Oppenheimer and fellow US scientists who had developed the atomic bomb. They had seen its devastating effects two years earlier, at the end...