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John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the end of world...

The devastating threats that atomic power poses to health still are a huge threat to humanity.

Seventy-four years ago yesterday, the U.S. dropped the first-ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred...

It’s essential for us to remember such grim details, not just for the sake of history, but for our future.

In remembrance, we turn to the words of a Hiroshima survivor, or hibakusha.

“America must bear the stigma of being the only nation in the world to have unleashed an atomic holocaust....and has never apologized.”

Obama will be the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, Japan.

While devastation and suffering came from those two awful bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a nuclear abolition movement was born that still wages a peaceful campaign to eliminate these weapons.