In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

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The agency says Kenya's nuclear power programme does not meet the standards set by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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In a poignant ceremony held on the 2nd of September 2023, the Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto celebrated the planting of two symbolic trees—"Cypress II," progeny of a tree that survived the atomic ...

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One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...