Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing as US-Russia nuclear tensions rise

Hiroshima Marks 80 Years Since Bombing amid Nuclear Threats from Russia and Iran

Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, days after the latest Russian threat to use nuclear weapons.

A Day of Solemn Remembrance

by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization: It was 80 years ago that the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, unleashing death and destruction previously unthinkable. That is, for all except the British imperial war hawks, who intended the nuclear attacks on Japan to be a prelude to a war against the Soviet Union, a plan […]

83-year-old atomic bomb survivor warns world is in 'most dangerous era'

Toshiyuki Mimaki, who was just three when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city 80 years ago

'End the nuclear cycle': Antinuclear New Mexicans speak out 80 years after Hiroshima bombing

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, antinuclear advocates in Santa Fe warned against ramped-up nuclear weapons production.

80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

These horrific bombings are a warning to workers around the world as to where the war policies of the most powerful capitalist governments lead, if they are not stopped.

Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing - The Boston Globe

With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now exceeding 86, the anniversary is considered the last milestone event for many of survivors of the 1945 bombing.