Developments in Berlin and Tokyo show how far the strategic environment has shifted in response to authoritarian threat and American unpredictabilityWhen Donald Trump hosted Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, last month, he could not resist a…
Donald Trump’s remarks on resuming nuclear testing have highlighted the risks. Proliferation must not be considered inevitableWhen Eisaku Satō, a former prime minister of Japan, received the Nobel peace prize in 1974 after committing his country to not…
We must continue to challenge claims that nuclear weapons are a ‘necessity’, says Caroline Lucas, while Gerry Weston says they don’t protect us from Russian aggression and Michael Newman says they didn’t end the second world warPolly Toynbee is right t…
Though the weapons I campaigned against remain terrifying, I doubt we can disarm unilaterally. That should be the stuff of vital debate: right now, it isn’t This week marks 80 years since the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the few remaining witn…
On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrentThe mayor of Hiroshima has led calls for the world’s most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, …
Eighty years on from the destruction of the city, registered survivors of the blast – known as hibakusha – have fallen below 100,000The fires were still burning, and the dead lay where they had fallen, when a 10-year-old Yoshiko Niiyama entered Hiroshi…
Nobuko Sakuramoto survived the atomic bomb and found love with an Australian serviceman. Together they stared down racism and forged a path for those who would followGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOn the edge of the Seto Sea…
Leaders of UAE, Qatar and Oman criticise attack and urge de-escalation as EU and UN call for immediate diplomacyMiddle East crisis – latest updatesCountries in the Middle East and beyond responded with alarm after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as…
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files‘It was a beautiful morning. The sun was shi…
Over the holidays, this column will explore next year’s urgent issues. Today we look at why an unqualified belief in nuclear deterrence can’t keep us safeNext November marks 40 years since the US president Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Go…
With Putin’s threats in Ukraine, China’s accelerated weapons programme and the US’s desire for superiority, what will it take for leaders to step back from the brink?Like Toto in The Wizard of Oz, at their 1985 summit in Geneva President Ronald Reagan …
The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched into ‘high seas’ of the Pacific OceanChina has announced the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the “high seas” of the Pacific Ocean, flying over the northern point of the Philippines i…
City’s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear blastThe US ambassador to Japan will skip this year’s memorial service for the nuclear attack on Nagasaki because Israel has not been invited, t…
This deeply moving documentary gives a voice to the ‘hibakusha’ who endured the horrific US bombings – and are running out of time to tell their storiesThe survivors of the nuclear bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known as “hibakus…
Moscow described the security council resolution, which would have called on countries not to deploy weapons of mass destruction in outer space, a ‘dirty spectacle’Russia has vetoed a UN security council resolution calling on all nations to prevent a d…
Film about ‘father of the atomic bomb’ finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at ‘Barbenheimer’ memesIt is hard to think of a more emotionally charged venue than Hatchoza for the first screening in Japan of the Academy Award-winning film…
UN chief António Guterres says risk of nuclear war has escalated and that ‘humanity cannot survive a sequel to Oppenheimer’The US and Japan are sponsoring a UN security council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons …
The 230-page unpublished memoir will reflect the horrors suffered by ordinary Japanese citizens in a feature-length dramaA major feature film on Hiroshima is going into production, inspired in part by an unpublished memoir of a Japanese man who witness…
National security adviser Jake Sullivan makes comments as US, Japan and South Korea agree to new security pledgeThe United States is “concerned” about the national security implications of North Korea and Russia reportedly cooperating on nuclear missil…