Nuclear weapons
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North Korea has launched possible ballistic missile, say Japan and South Korea
Regime conducts first such launch of the year, with South Korea’s military saying the missile appears to have …
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North Korea test fires two ballistic missiles in challenge to Biden
Projectiles are believed to have landed in the sea outside Japan’s exclusive economic zoneNorth Korea test fir…
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Japan PM sparks anger with near-identical speeches in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
‘It’s the same every year. He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% …
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Don’t let the victors define morality – Hiroshima was always indefensible | Kenan Malik
The decision 75 years ago to use atomic bombs was fuelled not by strategy but by sheer inhumanity“If we’d lost…
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Harry Truman and the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Letters
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks …
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Imperial War Museum unveils film marking 75 years since Hiroshima bomb
Video by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston tells story of nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and NagasakiA powerful 10-mi…
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‘To my last breath’: survivors fight for memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
75 years after bombings, witnesses struggle to remind us of the horrors of nuclear weaponsAs they mark 75 year…
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Hiroshima at 75: bitter row persists over US decision to drop the bomb
Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unc…
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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors –…
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‘He felt he had to do it’: Truman’s grandson on bombing Hiroshima
Seventy-five years after the US president’s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling…
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North Korea’s new warheads could penetrate missile shield, says Japan
Pyongyang’s new short-range missile have irregular trajectory, which could outsmart interceptor missiles, mini…
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Strategies for nuclear weapons and waste | Letters
It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West…
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Hiroshima remembers – in pictures
Survivors mark 74th anniversary of atomic bombing of city in second world war with one minute’s silence Contin…