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Richard Flanagan: “It’s the job of writing to be true”

Author Richard Flanagan (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated 175 days ago

From Trinity to today: Turning the page on nuclear testing

Complacency is not an option. A return to nuclear testing would almost certainly spark a dangerous arms race, one that undermines the purposes for which the United Nations was founded. (REUTERS)

Published 322 days ago

The Case for the Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later

Even after several square miles of central Nagasaki were destroyed by the second bomb, army chief Yoshijiro Umezu concluded that Japan still had the “ability to deal a smashing blow to the enemy”

Updated 343 days ago

Nuclear nightmares are back

Illustration: Lan Truong

Published 344 days ago

Japan marks 80 years of atomic bombing as survivors seek nuclear disarmament

Visitors observe a minute of silence for the victims of the atomic bombing, at 8.15am, the time atomic bomb exploded over the city, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

Published 345 days ago

Build readiness against rising dirty-war risks

Each WMD category brings its own horrors: While nuclear weapons incinerate cities, biological and chemical agents work invisibly, silently, and over time. (AFP)

Updated 346 days ago

Forgotten Korean survivor of the WWII atomic bombs breaks decades of silence

Bae Kyung-mi recalled hearing planes overhead while she was playing at her home in Hiroshima on that day.

Published 347 days ago

US to hit Iran again? Donald Trump makes bold one word statement

US' President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (not pictured) during the NATO summit of heads of state and government in The Hague on June 25, 2025. (Photo by Piroschka Van De Wouw / POOL / AFP)

Updated 387 days ago

Enola Gay: Huge uproar as WWII bomber targeted under Trump govt's DEI purge

Enola Gay was named after pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr's mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.

Published 496 days ago

HT This Day: August 8, 1945 -- Atomic bomb assault against Japan

HT This Day: August 8, 1945 -- Atomic bomb assault against Japan completed (HT)

Updated 709 days ago

Hiroshima Day 2024: Date, history, significance of 79th year of atomic bombings

Hiroshima Day 2024: Date, history, significance and observance of 79th year of World War II atomic bombings

Published 711 days ago

Who is Tim Walberg? GOP congressman faces ire over calls to bomb Gaza like…

Speaking with constituents on March 25, Walberg of Michigan appeared to suggest that the US must deploy nuclear weapons in the Gaza strip rather than sending humanitarian aid.

Updated 837 days ago

Hiroshima victim's origami a warning from the past

Sadako Sasaki's paper cranes on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Published 1030 days ago

Book to film: On Oppenheimer and American Prometheus

Cillian Murphy in and as Oppenheimer. (Universal Pictures)

Updated 1073 days ago

Patna plays host to international artists in G-20 cultural track exhibition

Cheap rice, an installation by Subodh Gupta (The Bihar Museum Biennale)

Published 1075 days ago

On Hiroshima's 78th anniversary, Japan PM Kishida slams Russia's nuclear threats

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Sunday,

Published 1076 days ago

Hiroshima: Atomic bomb survivors keep memory alive

Nuclear bombing survivors speak often at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, where images of the devastated city are exhibited.

Published 1076 days ago

Hiroshima Day: 78th anniversary of US atomic bombing today. All you need to know

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, front right, observes a moment of silence during a ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Sunday.

Published 1076 days ago

Hiroshima marks atomic bombing’s 78th anniversary: 'G7's nuclear deterrence is..

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks in front of the Cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims and the Atomic Bomb Dome in the Peace Memorial Park during the Presidency Press Conference of the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, 21 May 2023.

Published 1076 days ago

How the Japanese overcame the US' soft power and preserved cultural liberty

A Japanese flag flutters atop the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo

Published 1077 days ago

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a staggering reckoning with history

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a staggering reckoning with history

Updated 1090 days ago

‘Photographs of ruined Hiroshima remind me of Bakhmut:’ Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a news conference at the Group of Seven nations' summit in Hiroshima.

Published 1153 days ago

Watch: PM Modi unveils bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Japan's Hiroshima

After the bust was unveiled, PM Modi paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.

Published 1154 days ago

Quad summit in Hiroshima, Biden thanks leaders for flexibility: White House

(From left) Australian PM Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi are greeted by Japanese PM Fumio Kishida (right), during their arrival to the Quad leaders summit at Kantei Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on May 24, 2022. (AP)

Updated 1154 days ago

Atomic bomb survivors look to Hiroshima G7 summit as "sliver of hope"

Sueichi Kido, survivor of A-bombing in Nagasaki, and Secretary General of Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations) speaks during an online interview in Hiroshima, western Japan.

Published 1155 days ago

Ukraine leader Zelenskyy to travel to Hiroshima to join G-7 leaders

Over the past week, Zelenskyy toured European capitals to make the case for more weapons deliveries. (File)

Published 1155 days ago

Biden to attend G7 summit in Hiroshima; war in Ukraine, climate crisis on agenda

Biden will also attend a Quad leaders' summit in Sydney, Australia on May 24, according to the statement, bringing together the United States, Australia, Japan and India. (File)

Published 1178 days ago

On Hiroshima Day, UN chief warns humanity ‘playing with loaded gun’

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, center, observes a minute of silence for the victims of the atomic bombing, during the ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

Updated 1441 days ago

Fumio Kishida set to be next prime minister of Japan

Fumio Kishida showed a harder edge in his campaign for the leadership, having expressed the need to deal “firmly” with the stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Updated 1752 days ago

Hiroshima Day 2021: An eerie reminder of the terrors of nuclear warfare

Hiroshima Day: August 6, 2021, will mark the 76th anniversary of the 1945 World War II atomic bombing. (Photo via National Archives)

Published 1806 days ago

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