Hiroshima and nagasaki

The Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki received the Nobel Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey that report describes the effects of the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

Tori Gate that survived the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb

Alfred Eisenstaedt - Mother and child sit amongst destroyed buildings four months after the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, 1945.

On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, another on Nagasaki, leading to the unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of World War II

On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, another on Nagasaki, leading to the unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of World War II

Daniel Ellsberg: Our popular image of nuclear war -- from the familiar pictures of the devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima -- is grotesquely misleading. Those pictures show us only what happens to humans and buildings when they are hit by what is now just the detonating cap for a modern nuclear weapon.

Read "Hiroshima Nagasaki" by Paul Ham available from Rakuten Kobo. With the world today on the brink of nuclear war- and Japan again in the nuclear firing line - award-winning author Paul...