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Judge halts shipment of radioactive wastes from atomic sites to Van Buren Twp. landfill
The elevated radioactivity soils and other materials arise from World War II-era development of atomic energy and weapons ...
Descendants of atomic bomb plane crewman and double survivor team up to abolish nuclear weapons
When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was onboard both of the ...
Filmmaker James Cameron on his vow to a survivor of both WWII atomic bombs
Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Ernest J. Moniz speak with Christiane Amanpour ...
The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...
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In Hiroshima on anniversary of atomic bombing there, Cardinal McElroy highlights ‘new moment’ for renewing Catholic teaching on war and peace
In a talk in Hiroshima, Japan, as part of a Pilgrimage of Peace coinciding with the 80 th anniversaries of the United States ...
‘A Scene From Hell.’ Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings Share Their Stories in Atomic People
PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.
Filmmakers, San Francisco Japantown museum reflect on 80-years since first atomic bomb
This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...
Sobering simulation shows true devastation of Hiroshima atomic bomb 80 years on from tragedy
A Hiroshima atomic bomb simulation shows the extent of the damage done to the city 80 years ago when the Little Boy bomb was ...