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3 Aug 2020, 23:11 (2 days ago)

August 3, 2020

 

Japanese Surrender Ceremony

HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI

What Europeans believe about Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why it matters

Did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shorten the war, and were they necessary to force the Japanese surrender? Historians have long challenged this narrative, but a significant number of Europeans still believe it--and that has ramifications for the support of disarmament policies. Read more.

SPECIAL TOPICS

ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor

Lucio Rossi, project leader of the High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider project, writes that Michel Claessens’ new book ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor "unfolds a fascinating story...in a simple, but not simplistic, way which is accessible to anyone with a will to stick to facts without prejudices." Read more.

NUCLEAR RISK

Memorial Days: the racial underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

This past Memorial Day, a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the throat of George Floyd for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Seventy-five years ago, an American pilot dropped an atomic bomb on the civilian population of Hiroshima. Worlds apart in time, space, and scale, the two events share key features. Read more.

 

Share a visual remembrance of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with this social media profile frame created by,a coalition of organizations putting on national virtual events related to the anniversaries of the bombings. Create your frame.

 

HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI

August 8 Tokyo House Party: Atomic Art

 

Bulletin associate editor Matt Field will join a Tokyo House Party to talk "art, activism, and aspiration in our Atomic Age" with Dr. Yuki Miyamoto of DePaul University, whose work centers on nuclear discourse and environmental ethics. Stream the event live on Twitch. Learn more.

WHAT WE'RE TRACKING

MacArthur Foundation on the Bulletin

 

Thank you to the MacArthur Foundation for recently featuring the Bulletin in their Grantee Stories! The piece highlighted 2017 Rieser Award recipient Yangyang Cheng, along with Bulletin author and neuroscientist turned illustrator Matteo Farinella.