12 Best Movies About Nuclear Apocalypse, Ranked By Doom

In honor of the release of Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear war thriller A House of Dynamite, we've ranked 12 of the best nuclear ...
The Raw Story

'Atomic bomb has detonated': Conservative says Trump planted a seed that could destroy DOJ

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...
Las Vegas Weekly

A historian’s search and new exhibit reveal the real identity of Miss Atomic Bomb

Nuclear testing wasn’t the only thing that went underground in the 1950s in Las Vegas. The true identity of the woman in the Atomic Age’s most iconic photograph was also buried. On May 24, 1957, a ...
The Conversation

How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors

Lauren Anne Constance receives funding from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee. Known as hibakusha in ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...
ABC7

Japan marks 80 years since atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan -- The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands and left survivors who hope their harrowing memories ...
UPI

On This Day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Aug. 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1483, the Sistine Chapel opens in the Vatican. In 1854, Walden was published by Henry David Thoreau. In 1916, Lassen Volcanic National Park was established ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

80 years after Nagasaki, Hiroshima: Ohio's connections to atomic bombs that ended WWII

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...
Catholic News Agency

Nagasaki cathedral bells toll as bishops gather for 80th atomic bomb anniversary

As night fell over Nagasaki, Japan, on Friday, the reconstructed Urakami Cathedral — once destroyed by the world’s second atomic bomb — became the focus of a 24-hour prayer vigil that bridged ...
CBS News

Filmmakers, San Francisco Japantown museum reflect on 80-years since first atomic bomb

Inside a tiny museum in San Francisco's Japantown, there is a powerful message about the atrocities of the atomic bomb. "Americans see the bomb as a beautiful mushroom cloud, and the Japanese who were ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Opinion: I survived an atomic bomb. It’s time to end the nuclear threat.

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two miles from ground zero, but by some miracle, I survived. The glass door ...
Wall Street Journal

The Case for the Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kate Bachelder Odell, Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. “Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret ...