Nagasaki hospital scans 50,000 A-bomb patient records

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

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 ...
Pew Research Center

80 years later, Americans have mixed views on whether use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki was justified

Aug. 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima – and three days later, on Nagasaki – during World War II. Today, most Americans (83%) ...
Washington Examiner

Japan commemorates 80 years since atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

1946: The Bikini Tests and Public Opinion

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 ...