Nagasaki, a city in western Japan, was razed to the ground on August 9, 1945, when the US dropped a plutonium-239 isotope bomb weighing about five tons, nicknamed "The Fat Man." For decades, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki was considered the event that ended World War II. Is it really so?
Eighty years ago today, Hiroshima became a symbol of the most horrific destruction ever wrought by mankind. As the number of survivors dwindles, 12-year-old Shun Sasaki, the great-grandson of the woman who survived the explosion, tells visitors from around the world a story of war, suffering and hope. His mission: to never be forgotten
Although Donald Trump claims that the US destroyed three nuclear facilities in Iran, experts warn that there is no hard evidence for this. There was also no decision by the US Congress or a UN resolution on the attack
Iran warns that it will develop a nuclear bomb if the United Nations reimposes sanctions
Donald Trump could return to the White House, and at least he has made no secret that he does not want to protect Europe militarily. The German weekly Spiegel writes that the Americans cannot be counted on forever and wonders whether the EU must have its own army - and its own atomic bomb.
In December 125 years ago, Marie Curie discovered radium, and in December 85 years ago, Otto Hahn proved the fission of the atomic nucleus. Their works paved the way to mankind's deadliest invention - the atomic bomb. I spoke with one of the participants in the race to develop atomic weapons
The day of remembrance for the victims of the world's first nuclear attack comes at a time when Russian officials have spoken about the use of nuclear weapons in the war with Ukraine. Western authorities have said there is no evidence that Russia was preparing such an attack
Nolan's film about Oppenheimer is not the first, and probably not the last movie hit connected with the development of nuclear technologies. While the biography of the controversial American physicist competes with Barbie at the box office, we are transmitting an excerpt about "nuclear cinematography" from the just-published book "Alchemy of the Bomb" by Slobodan Bubnjević
Eight years after the end of World War II, I spoke in Hamburg with Professor Erich Bagge, who worked with Heisenberg in Nazi Germany on the atomic bomb project. They didn't even realize how close they were. Fortunately for humanity, Hitler did not realize that the atomic bomb was not the imagination of mad scientists
There is no war goal big enough to justify the immediate death of tens and hundreds of thousands of people, and that is just one of the consequences of a nuclear explosion. Can we prepare for the end of the world and what would happen then?
Filming of the film "Chain Reaction" about the event at the Vinca Institute in which five of our scientists were irradiated in 1958 while, on the orders of Josip Broz, they were trying to build an atomic bomb is underway. Pavle Savić, then manager of the Institute, refused the order and was fired
According to a new report by Chatham House, since the Cuban Missile Crisis, there have been as many as thirteen, mostly secret, international incidents that have brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
