US EditionHiroshima was bombed 80 years ago today — and the nuclear taboo is once again under stress
JAPAN, AUG 6 – Geopolitical tensions and treaty breakdowns have pushed the nuclear threat to its highest level since World War II, with the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight, experts warn.
- Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of when the U.S. employed the first nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, followed by Nagasaki on Aug. 9, ending World War II.
- After Nagasaki, a global norm emerged that Nagasaki would be the last military use of a nuclear weapon, birthing the nuclear taboo, following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed about 200,000 people.
- Earlier this year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight, and on Jan. 28, 2025, it stood at 89 seconds to midnight.
- In the latest nuclear stress test, President Donald Trump posted that he ordered two nuclear submarines in response to Dmitry Medvedev's provocative statements, amid rising threat levels.
- Amid rising nuclear concerns, the 80th anniversary highlights the need to review challenges to the nuclear taboo, with a 2019 Princeton simulation estimating 91.5 million casualties in a U.S.-Russia conflict.
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On Wednesday, tens of thousands of people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima were thinking of the victims of the nuclear bombing 80 years ago.
Hiroshima was bombed 80 years ago today — and the nuclear taboo is once again under stress
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