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Hiroshima

In this Aug. 9, 1945, file photo, a giant column of smoke rises after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over the Japanese port town of Nagasaki, Japan.

‘Oppenheimer’ film ‘fails’ to show devastation of atom bombs in postwar Japan, critics say

Arts, Culture & Media

‘Oppenheimer’ is expected to win big at the 2024 Academy Awards. But one point of controversy is that the director did not depict any images of the devastating aftermath of the dropping of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Getting those images out to the public was a longtime quest for Herbert Sussan, then a 24-year-old filmmaker who filmed in Japan at the time.

France's President Emmanuel Macron wears a flowers leis and seashell necklaces gestures as he speaks up on his arrival as the mayor Manihi John Drollet stands next to him at the Manihi Atoll, 312 miles northeast of Tahiti, French Polynesia.

New study on nuclear testing in French Polynesia reveals France’s ‘censorship and secrecy’

Nuclear
A crowd of survivors are shown standing and sitting on a bridge with several damaged buildings in the distance.

The only known photos from Hiroshima taken on Aug. 6, 1945

Photography
A man is shown walking on the street with a white bandage around his head with security officers standing nearby.

Mourning and anger amid devastation after Beirut explosion; One-third of Afghanistan may have had COVID-19; 75-years since Hiroshima bombing

Top of The World
Hiroshima target map

Seven decades after the bomb, children of Hiroshima victims still worry about hidden health effects

Health
An older Japanese man hugs former President Barack Obama

Why this Hiroshima survivor dedicated his life to searching for the families of 12 American POWs

Justice

Shigeaki Mori was 8 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He survived and committed himself to uncovering the names of all those who died — including 12 American POWs.

Ivy Mike

What you need to know about modern nuclear war

Conflict

Science Friday host Ira Flatow spoke to three nuclear experts to learn more about what modern nuclear war might look like.

When Yuji Onuma was a kid, he lived in Futaba, a part of Fukushima. Today, he has kids of his own — but they can’t go near Futaba. Here, he wears protective clothing during a visit to his old house.

Photos: See Japan’s nuclear legacy — from Fukushima to Hiroshima

Books

Jacob Beser helped bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His grandson, Ari Beser, photographs survivors.

Hiroshima survivor Sunao Tsuboi is seen at a French nuclear test site in In-Ekker near Ain Meguel, February 16, 2007.

‘I still hate the glow of the setting sun’: Hiroshima survivors tell their stories

Conflict

“Hiroshima was a sea of fire. People bled from everywhere on their bodies: ‘I’m burning. I’m burning. Please help,’ they cried.”

anti-nuclear protesters hiroshima japan

71 years after Hiroshima, will we see a world free from nuclear weapons soon?

Conflict

The number of nuclear weapons in today’s world has declined significantly since the Cold War, but does that translate into a safer world?