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‘Poisoning the Pacific’: New book details US military contamination of islands and ocean
More than 12,000 pages of US government documents show military operations contaminating the Pacific with radi…
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Pompeo pressed on claims China is helping build Saudi uranium facility
Democrats write to secretary of state over claims Beijing is helping to develop yellowcake factory Congression…
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Japan PM sparks anger with near-identical speeches in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
‘It’s the same every year. He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% …
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Harry Truman and the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Letters
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks …
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Imperial War Museum unveils film marking 75 years since Hiroshima bomb
Video by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston tells story of nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and NagasakiA powerful 10-mi…
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‘To my last breath’: survivors fight for memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
75 years after bombings, witnesses struggle to remind us of the horrors of nuclear weaponsAs they mark 75 year…
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Hiroshima at 75: bitter row persists over US decision to drop the bomb
Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unc…
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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors –…
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‘He felt he had to do it’: Truman’s grandson on bombing Hiroshima
Seventy-five years after the US president’s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling…
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North Korea has ‘probably’ developed nuclear devices to fit ballistic missiles – UN
Pyongyang’s past six nuclear tests had likely helped it develop miniaturised nuclear devices, interim report f…
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Japan recognises dozens more survivors of Hiroshima in landmark ruling
More than a dozen ‘black rain’ plaintiffs died during legal battle to prove people living further away also su…
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Japan backs out of costly US missile system despite ‘imminent threat’ from North Korea
Decision raises possibility Japan would create its own first-strike capability, which some say violates its co…
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US-Russia nuclear envoys make guarded comments as talks begin in Vienna
Uncertainty surrounds talks, after Trump repeatedly tried to bring China to the tableThe US and Russia have re…
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Russia will open nuclear disarmament talks with US
But Moscow warns against insisting on including China in New Start negotiationsRussia has confirmed that it wi…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un holds talks on increasing ‘nuclear war deterrence’
Leader makes first appearance in several weeks to talk about ‘considerably increasing the firepower’ of the mi…