Nuclear Age

80 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Nuclear Threat Remains Grave

80 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Nuclear Threat Remains Grave

Nuclear Age, Nuclear Weapons August 3, 2025 at 1:28 am 0 comments

Ira Helfand | As we approach the eightieth anniversary of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this month, on August 6 and 9, respectively, the danger of nuclear war is great and growing.

The fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the dangers of nuclear energy

The fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the dangers of nuclear energy

Major General Sudhir Vombatkere Major General S.G. Vombatkere retired as the Additional Director General, Discipline & Vigilance in Army HQ, New Delhi. He is Adjunct Associate Professor of the University of Iowa, USA, in international studies, and is a member of NAPM and PUCL. He writes on strategic and development-relatedRead More

Reflections on 79 years of the first US atomic bomb test

Reflections on 79 years of the first US atomic bomb test

Dave Lindorff | Counter Punch Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right): Wikipedia. Three Weeks After the first Atomic Bomb Test, They Used It on Two Japanese Cities Teen physicist Ted Hall, who helped perfect the plutonium bomb, passed its secrets to the Soviet Union hoping toRead More

Climate Change will Unearth Buried Nuclear Waste: US Federal Accountability Office

Climate Change will Unearth Buried Nuclear Waste: US Federal Accountability Office

Climate change could unearth buried US nuclear waste Anita Hofschneider | Mother Jones   This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a manRead More