Tag: Hiroshima

The development of the first atomic bombs took scientists around the world decades. Nevertheless, in 1945, the United States successfully carried out the two largest atomic attacks in history on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, largely due…

We tend to think that the nuclear war is a remote possibility. However, on the 73rd anniversary of the second atomic bomb drop on Japan, in Nagasaki, historian Peter Kuznick reflects on how the nuclear…

The British bombing of Hamburg in 1942, and the American firebombing of Japan in March 1945 that killed as many as 120,000 people in one night, created the conditions for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima…