Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained ...

At 8.15am on August 6, when the atomic bomb hit, many staff were inside the hospital—his pep talk had saved lives.

new video loaded: Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors Awarded Nobel Peace Prize transcript The Nobel committee said that Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese grass-roots movement of “hibakusha,” or atomic ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors known for their powerful global activism. These survivors, hibakusha in Japanese ...

Nearly one-fifth of Japan’s hibakusha, as survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known, said they had faced discrimination, mainly in finding a marriage partner but also ...

Sixty years ago, in the remote Lop Nur desert in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, code-named “Miss Qiu”. The test, on October 16 ...

Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday that the risk of nuclear war was rising, renewing their call to abolish nuclear weapons. "The ...

Nuclear weapons never bring peace, said the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel ...

Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors' Group Nihon Hidankyo Wins Nobel Peace Prize By Gwladys Fouche, Chang-Ran Kim OSLO/TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of ...

Mimaki screamed. Toshiyuki Mimaki, president of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks in an anti-atomic bomb meeting in Hiroshima, Japan ...

Nearly eight decades later, as a leader of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of fellow atomic bomb survivors that received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, he renewed his plea to abolish nuclear weapons.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors from the U.S. atomic ...