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

The letter says the Iran deal “will advance the cause of peace and security in the Middle East and can serve as a guidepost for future nonproliferation agreements”. “But, you know, we’ve been very clear that the joint agreement that we plan that you...

Tens of thousands were injured and died later. The second bomb, “Fat Man”, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.

But he said it would be harder to push back against a nuclear-armed Iran.

He promised that Japan would continue to abide by its long-held principles: not producing, possessing or allowing nuclear weapons on Japanese territory.

Senator Schumer is well respected in the democratic caucus and has already gathered enough support to become the next senate democratic leader when Harry Reid steps down. “If this is what counts as “leadership” among Democrats in the Senate, Senate Democrats...

“In 15 years or less, Iran is permitted to have an unlimited quantity of centrifuges of unlimited quality”, Sherman said in statement Friday “… we must force modifications of the agreement, and extensions of its nuclear restrictions, before it gets ugly”.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima yesterday to mark 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today over whether the total destruction it caused was justified.

In the UK, the current military nuclear weapon system, Trident, is often criticised as being too expensive to maintain and unnecessary in its mission to keep world peace by some politicians and political parties.

ArticleFive things your class should know on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombingWorld War II, Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), August 1945, Japan.

The Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath ultimately claimed about 140,000 lives, helping to draw to a close the deadliest conflict in history and, for better or worse, usher in the atomic age. “It is our mission to convey to the world and to the coming generations the...

President Barack Obama is standing by his comparison between Iranian hardliners and Republicans who he says are dead set on derailing any nuclear deal.

Dickerson noted President Obama’s recent assertion that the Republicans who are striving to kill the agreement are “making common cause” with the hardliners in Iran who oppose the deal. “Schumer and his opposition to this reckless nuclear deal with...

Tens of thousands of people stood for a minute of silence at 8:15 a.m.at a ceremony in Hiroshima’s peace park near the epicenter of the 1945 attack, marking the moment of the blast.

Though Schumer’s announcement that he would vote in disapproval of the nuclear deal – which leaked mysteriously during the middle of the Republican debate on Thursday – is unlikely to derail the process, it represents an embarrassing rift with a senior Democrat...