An all-important datum in risk assessment is the radiation dose to individual survivors of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first set of dose estimates for survivors was based on a ...

Hiroshima, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in a ceremony of remembrance, but it was an event also aimed, psychologically, at preventing ...

August 6 and 9 are the 80 th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius ...

Tuesday marks 79 years since an atomic bomb dropped by the United States devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Mayor ...

The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) is a U.S.-Japan cooperative research institute that investigates the health effects of atomic bomb radiation for peaceful purposes. The National ...

Key points of this installment After the bombing, unused photographic materials (35mm film, X-ray film, and photographic ...

Bombshell explores how the U.S. manipulated the narrative about the impact of the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how a group of journalists pushed back. An in-depth look at the efforts of ...

During World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs—”Little Boy” on Hiroshima and “Fat Man” on Nagasaki—causing immense destruction and loss for Japan. Today, countries around the world ...