カテゴリー: Nuclear weapons
More than 12,000 pages of US government documents show military operations contaminating the Pacific with radioactive waste, nerve agents, and chemical weapons like Agent OrangeIn 1968, Leroy Foster was a master sergeant in the US Air Force, assigned t…
Democrats write to secretary of state over claims Beijing is helping to develop yellowcake factory Congressional Democrats have asked the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to provide information about China’s alleged role in building a uranium proces…
‘It’s the same every year. He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% match in speeches given days apartSurvivors of the atomic bombings of 75 years ago have accused Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, of making …
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks the bombing of Nagasaki was even more of a war crimeClifton Daniel is right about his grandfather’s bombing of Hiroshima (‘He felt he had to d…
Video by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston tells story of nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and NagasakiA powerful 10-minute video artwork marking the 75th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been released by the Imperial Wa…
75 years after bombings, witnesses struggle to remind us of the horrors of nuclear weaponsAs they mark 75 years since their cities were destroyed in an instant, the ageing men and women who bore witness to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki …
Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unconscionable act of brutalitySeventy-five years after it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay stands, restored and gleaming, as …
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear warI keep a red file folder, its edges faded from nearly three decades of e…
Seventy-five years after the US president’s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling with his legacyTo many Americans, he was the commander-in-chief who had the mettle to end the second world war quickly and save countless liv…
Pyongyang’s past six nuclear tests had likely helped it develop miniaturised nuclear devices, interim report finds, echoing previous warningsNorth Korea is pressing on with its nuclear weapons programme and several countries believe it has “probably de…
More than a dozen ‘black rain’ plaintiffs died during legal battle to prove people living further away also suffered radiation exposure in 1945A court in Japan has for the first time recognised dozens of people who were exposed to radioactive “black ra…
Decision raises possibility Japan would create its own first-strike capability, which some say violates its constitutionJapan has scrapped plans to buy a multibillion-dollar missile defence system from the US that was intended to boost its ability to c…
Uncertainty surrounds talks, after Trump repeatedly tried to bring China to the tableThe US and Russia have restarted talks about their nuclear arsenals after a break of more than a year and uncertainty over whether Donald Trump is interested in salvag…
But Moscow warns against insisting on including China in New Start negotiationsRussia has confirmed that it will open talks with the US this month on extending a major nuclear disarmament treaty but warned that Washington’s insistence on including Chin…
Leader makes first appearance in several weeks to talk about ‘considerably increasing the firepower’ of the military, state media reportsNorth Korea discussed new policies for increasing its “nuclear war deterrence” during a military meeting presided o…