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80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible for reparations

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...
cnycentral

Syracuse University Professor speaks on 80th anniversary of atomic bombing of Japan

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Wednesday marks 80 years since the United States dropped its first nuclear bomb on Japan, an event that reshaped global history. Remembrance services were held in Hiroshima, where ...
PBS

How the Atomic Bomb Redefined Geopolitics — 80 Years On

This week marks 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing an estimated 200,000 people. Historian Garrett Graff’s new book “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” draws ...
Hyperallergic

The History of Atomic Warfare in a Sprawling Installation

Pioneer Works is presenting the hourlong documentary the bomb in an installation inspired by the design of nuclear weapon command and control centers. The film, directed by Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

The Way I See It: The ‘atom bomb’ fell 80 years ago last week

The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...