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Will Oppenheimer get a theatrical release in Japan as controversy over Barbenheimer memes erupt?

Film depicts the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed around 200,000 people

The Independent UK

The nuclear arms race's legacy at home: Toxic contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of government secrecy

Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” has focused new attention on the legacies of the Manhattan Project – the World War II program to develop nuclear weapons. As the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, approach, it’s a timely moment to look further…

The Conversation

Why American culture fixates on the tragic image of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the most famous man behind the atomic bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new…

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Warner Bros. apologizes for 'Barbenheimer' after Japan backlash

Social media users in Japan argued the "Barbenheimer" mash-up made light of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Fortune

Will Oppenheimer get a theatrical release in Japan as controversy over Barbenheimer memes erupt?

Film depicts the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed around 200,000 people

The Independent UK

Will Oppenheimer get a theatrical release in Japan as controversy over Barbenheimer memes erupt?

Film depicts the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed around 200,000 people

The Independent UK

Oppenheimer yet to receive theatrical release date in Japan

Film depicts the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed around 200,000 people

The Independent UK

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Christopher Nolan has explained why Oppenheimer doesn't show Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Oppenheimer doesn't show the bombings themselves

Total Film

Exhibition in Iwate Prefecture features historic Nagasaki photos

MORIOKA -- An exhibition featuring pictures taken by U.S. military photographer Joe O'Donnell -- known for his historic depiction of a Japanese boy carrying a dead baby on his back in Nagasaki in 1945 -- opened in Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Belarus receives nuclear bombs ‘three times size of Hiroshima bomb’ from Russia

‘The bombs are three times more powerful than those (dropped on) Hiroshima and Nagasaki’

The Independent UK

Petition signatures gathered in bid for N-weapons treaty

NAGASAKI -- Members of the Nagasaki Council against A and H Bombs (Nagasaki Gensuikyo) collected signatures in downtown Nagasaki on Saturday for a petition calling on the Japanese government to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Atomic bomb survivors look to G7 summit in Hiroshima as a 'sliver of hope' for nuclear disarmament

Holding this week’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, is an attempt by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to promote an anti-nuclear message

The Independent UK

‘Like Nagasaki’: devastating wildfires will only get worse, new book warns

Author John Vaillant’s Fire Weather chronicles the 2016 Fort McMurray blaze – Canada’s costliest natural disaster

The Guardian - US

Biden's schedule precludes Nagasaki trip

U.S. President Joe Biden will not visit Nagasaki during his May trip to Japan for the Group of Seven summit meeting in Hiroshima due to scheduling difficulties, according to Japanese government sources.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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Asharq Al-Awsat

US Invasion of Iraq Lead to Leukemia Rates Worse Than After Hiroshima Crisis

The US invasion of Iraq that began 20 years ago has left a toxic legacy worse than that of the Hiroshima bombing, according to a recent study. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945 killed around 140,000 people, most of whom died instantly, while…

Bangkok Post

An anxious Asia arms for a war it hopes to prevent

TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins.

Wales Online

Asteroid size of building to pass closer to Earth than our own Moon on Saturday

A collision would create an explosion 214 times as big as the Nagasaki bomb

WEKU

'Love at Six Thousand Degrees' is a refreshing inversion of the trauma narrative

Maki Kashimada's work is a fascinating exploration of the sources of our own cruelty and our level of individual agency when healing from trauma.

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EU envoy pays respects to victims of atomic bomb

NAGASAKI -- Jean-Eric Paquet, the EU ambassador to Japan, visited Nagasaki City on Friday to pay tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing there. The visit was made possible after the EU, which has been supporting Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, approached Nagasaki to deepen ties with the city…

Daily Mirror

Pregnant monkey baffles experts as she was living alone in cage for years

Momo, a white-handed gibbon, shocked staff at a Nagasaki zoo after becoming pregnant as she was living in her own cage and was not in contact with any other male monkey

Asharq Al-Awsat

8 Confirmed Dead in Ship Sinking off Japan and South Korea

A Chinese official said Thursday that eight people have died in the sinking of a cargo ship in waters between Japan and South Korea. Lyu Guijun, the consul general in the western Japanese city of Fukuoka, told state broadcaster CGTN that six of the eight victims were Chinese, The Associated…

Reuters

Cargo ship sinks off Japan, leaving two dead, nine missing

Two people died and nine were missing after a cargo ship sank off southwestern Japan early on Wednesday amid fierce winter winds, the coast guard said, as it continued to search for survivors.

The Independent UK

Russian ex-president Medvedev blasts Japanese PM over US ‘subservience’: ‘He should disembowel himself’

Medvedev said joint statement ‘betrayed the memory of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who were burned in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’

Reuters

Biden weighs visit to Japan's Nagasaki during G-7 summit in May - reports

U.S. President Joe Biden is considering a trip to the Japanese city of Nagasaki with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a G-7 summit visit next year, media reported on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Court denies govt aid for Nagasaki A-bomb survivors children

A Japanese court has rejected a damages suit filed by a group of children of Nagasaki atomic bombing survivors seeking eligibility for government support for medical costs, saying hereditary radiation impact has not been proven

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