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Lantern floating ceremony Hiroshima 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist”

The US bombing of Japan pushed millions in the country to fight for a world without nuclear weapons and with peace.

Missile The United States is in an arms race against itself

As the US moves to develop nuclear primacy through the modernization of its nuclear triad, is the US responding to a threat or creating one?

Cuando los niños son asesinados, ¿qué hay que celebrar?

La extraordinaria capacidad de resistencia de los palestinos es un poderoso ejemplo del valor y la dignidad humanos frente a la terrible violencia.

When children are murdered, what is there to celebrate?

The remarkable resilience of Palestinians is a powerful example of human courage and dignity in the face of terrible violence

US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered amid growing threat of nuclear war

US bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945 are the only incidents of nuclear bombings in world history

Mapping Faultlines: 76 years after Hiroshima, nuclear threat still looms large

76 years after Hiroshima, humanity still faces the threat of nuclear annihilation. Treaties which reduced the threat have expired mainly due to the the intransigence of the US. Prabir Purkayastha looks at these issues

Nagasaki: 75 years later

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha looks at the impact of the Nagasaki nuclear bombing, especially on global politics and the Cold War that followed it

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the threat of nuclear extinction

It is difficult to believe that the US view of the justness of its possession of nuclear power, while threatening others, is not underpinned by the belief of many in white supremacy

75 years after Hiroshima, where do we stand?

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the state of the nuclear threat 75 years after the first atom bomb was dropped in Hiroshima.

Today marks 75 years since the world’s first nuclear bombing

After three quarters of a century of the nuclear bombings, the Japanese people continue to resist creeping militarism and right-ward tilt. The government of Shinzo Abe has been pushing for expanding military power

75 years after Hiroshima, the clock is ticking

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To this day, we are under the threat of nuclear war.

75 years after first nuclear explosion, apocalypse still looms

Today is the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear test, the Trinity test which was the culmination of the Manhattan project.