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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

The Project 955A (Borei A) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Knyaz Oleg sets off on its first sea trial in the White Sea. Oleg Kuleshov/TASS (Photo by Oleg KuleshovTASS via Getty Images)

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

Takashi Morita

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…