Hiroshima
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OPINION | Now is the time for a new non-aligned movement and peace
As countries in the Global North push to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Global South has overwhelmingly pushed for a perspective of dialogue and peace
Nuclear powers must stop playing nuclear chess and atomic roulette
The United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea are increasing their arsenals
Bomb victims seek a world with no nukes
Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks are campaigning to halt Brazil’s nuclear plans.
The real nuclear threat
The US and its allies pose the biggest danger to world peace
Tutu likens debt to nuclear war
Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged Japan on Thursday to cancel debts of developing countries, likening their suffering to the devastation of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and…
Sixty years and 242 437 lives later, Hiroshima remembers
As they lay dying amid the ruins of their city, the victims of the Hiroshima bomb craved one thing above all — water. On Saturday morning cups of water were brought as symbolic…
‘People no longer looked like human beings’
A day before the United States dropped the world’s first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Akie Yoshikawa remembered the sky was full of American B-29 bombers and they were flying…
Hiroshima 60 years on: Children of Hiroshima
Seven-year-old Masaaki Tanabe spent that hot and humid summer playing in the gardens of the industrial promotion hall, beneath the striking green dome which had become a local…