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A mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb.

How the race for nuclear power began

Nuclear

The begging of the nuclear age at the end of World War II happened, in large part, due to fears that Germany would detonate an atomic bomb first. See how the United States pushed itself to become the world’s first nuclear power.

Special Guest: Richard Rhodes

Arts, Culture & Media

American Prometheus

Arts, Culture & Media

Nuclear Monsters

Arts, Culture & Media
Ivy Mike

What you need to know about modern nuclear war

Conflict
When Yuji Onuma was a kid, he lived in Futaba, a part of Fukushima. Today, he has kids of his own — but they can’t go near Futaba. Here, he wears protective clothing during a visit to his old house.

Photos: See Japan’s nuclear legacy — from Fukushima to Hiroshima

Books

Jacob Beser helped bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His grandson, Ari Beser, photographs survivors.

November 1945. Hiroshima, Japan.

Photos: Hiroshima after the atomic bomb

Global Politics

Thousands of people were instantly killed after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. About 140,000 would die from complications as a result of the bombing by the end of the year. Here is a selection of historical images on the ground in Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped.

Hiroshima atomic bomb app screen capture lead image

Experience Hiroshima — What if the atomic bomb hit your hometown?

Global Politics

President Barack Obama is visiting Hiroshima, Japan, the first city to experience the effects of an atomic bomb. Put yourself into the shoes of those who suffered from the atomic bomb attacks in Japan: What if the Hiroshima atomic bomb hit your hometown?

Hiroshima residents release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 67th anniversary of the bombing.

Japanese and Americans remember the closing chapter of World War II so very differently

Justice

Here’s why President Obama won’t revisit the history of the decision to drop the A-bomb when he goes to Hiroshima on Friday.

Radiation hotspot in Kashiwa, February 2012

They know: Hiroshima survivors help those in Fukushima overcome fear, discrimination

Conflict

Hiroshima’s A-bomb survivors know all about the fear of radiation: their own fear and other people’s fear of them. Now they are helping people who lived in Fukushima’s nuclear danger zone deal with some of the same issues.

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