Beneath the cherry blossoms of Hiroshima, memories of devastation linger — but so does hope. This exclusive extract from Six Minutes to Winter, Mark Lynas’s urgent new book on the threat of nuclear ...

was one of the few buildings left standing after the blast. Now a part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the Atomic Bomb Dome, or Genbaku Dome, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The heat from the ...

But then, the artist didn’t have to provide the details of the Hiroshima bombing and its effects; Hersey had already ... survivors during and immediately after the blast.

These effects are known not just from thousands ... The answer is a definitive no. After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, residual radiation was left behind but this declined rapidly.

compelled Japan to surrender as she did on August 15 instead of waging a showdown battle on the Japanese mainland is a justifiable conclusion drawn after one sees what used to be Hiroshima city.

Information on breast cancer among survivors of the atomic bombings has now accumulated to the point where a fairly definite carcinogenic effect seems established. In women exposed to 90 rads or ...

Nearly eight decades after Hiroshima, the number of survivors of ... old who have been dying over the past decades from the side effects of radiation or natural causes. More than 100,000 hibakusha ...

It follows young Gen Nakaoka and his family in Hiroshima in the latter part of ... with head-on—there is no cutting away from the after effects of the bomb on the Japanese people, nor the ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer "plunged into a deep depression" after he created the atomic bomb. Historian Kai Bird said the physicist then began to publicly denounce use of the bomb. At a meeting with ...

In short, while the image is real, it happened after the bombing of Nagasaki, not Hiroshima. The earliest example of the claim that the photo showed an "atomic shadow" appeared in an October 2009 ...

In Hiroshima alone, the death toll climbed to over 100,000 by the end of 1945 and exceeded 200,000 after five years. In 1945, the National Academy of Sciences established the Radiation Effects ...

Others include a Hiroshima prefectural official and a photographer caught up in military duties during warfare. Their pictures captured the mushroom cloud from various angles that formed after the ...