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The Nobel-winning discoveries did more than answer the question of the seemingly missing neutrinos.

The bombing was followed up by a strike three days later on another southern city, Nagasaki.

Seventy years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Sunday (August 9) described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity”.

Tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima Thursday to mark 70 years since the dropping of the first atomic bomb, with opinion still divided over whether its deadly destruction was justified. Abe said that to demonstrate this determination, Japan will introduce a new resolution at...

He said the world till bristles with more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. However, one US publication has made a rather freakish claim.

Children, elderly survivors and delegates representing 100 countries were in the crowd with many placing flowers in front of the cenotaph at Peace Memorial Park, as doves were released into the air. Almost everything around it was incinerated by a wall of heat up to 4,000 degrees...

The bombings resulted in Japan surrendering on August 12. “Today he still suffers from those injuries sustained 70 years ago”, Bishop Cantu said. The tale developed to justify the bombings that led to a world in which the threat of human extinction has been a daily...

The legislation passed Japan’s lower house of parliament in May amid widespread criticism and a parliamentary walkout from opposition parties. But surveys show a majority of voters are opposed to what would be a significant shift in Japan’s defense policy.

A message from UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon echoed the calls of Mr Taue and others to abolish nuclear weapons.

Norwegian People’s Aid, the labour movement’s humanitarian organisation for solidarity, has for many years been pushing the Norwegian politicians to take active, driving role in the fight to prohibit nuclear weapons.

Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under fire for his attempts to expand the military’s role.

Per Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those three principles are, “not possessing, not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons, in line with Japan’s Peace Constitution”.

On August 6, 1945, the US atomic bomb “Little Boy” detonated about 2,000 feet above Hiroshima killing around 140,000 people.

Bells tolled as a solemn crowd observed a moment of silence at 8.15am local time, when the detonation turned the western Japanese city into an inferno, killing thousands instantly and leaving others to die a slow death with terrible injuries.

In the heavy summer heat, cicadas shrilled, the Peace Bell rang and hundreds of doves were released into the sky.