American Institute of Physics

The Collapse of the Banqiao Reservoir and the Atomic Bomb

Caleb Dixon, Hashaam Sheikh, and Javi Guerr from Texas won the junior prize for their group documentary, “The Destroyer of ...
Stars and Stripes

Americans planned a massive invasion of Japan for November 1945. But it didn’t happen.

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Japan's aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons ...
Yahoo

Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima: What's changed?

TOKYO -- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, ...