Mercury News

Here’s how big our nuclear arsenal is 80 years after the first atomic bomb

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.
The New York Times

I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.

Dr. Tanaka is a chair of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki ...
The Conversation

‘Then the city started to burn, the fires were chasing me’ – 80 years on, Hiroshima survivors describe how the atomic blast echoed down generations

The Open University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...
NPR

As arms race in Asia intensifies, a-bomb survivors make final plea for peace

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Shortly before the 80 th anniversary of nuclear attack on Hiroshima early this month, several dozen elementary school students met with atomic bomb survivor and farmer Toshiyuki ...
The Heritage Foundation

Learning to Love the Bomb? Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons and Limited Nuclear War

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...