Category: History

Storytelling for nuclear disarmament: young leaders launch six creative projects to raise awareness and inspire action

13 February 2026 Participants of the second phase of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) developed six storytelling projects with the aim to preserve memory, share the historical lessons from nuclear weapons use and testing, and advance advocacy for nuclear disarmament. With coaching from the United Nations Office for Disarmament… Read More Storytelling for nuclear disarmament: young leaders launch six creative projects to raise awareness and inspire action

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Atomic Reporters 2025 wrap up, and watch ‘Bombshell’—a new documentary about journalism and nuclear weapons

Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (standing in uniform, center right), Chief of Manhattan Engineering District in which first atomic bomb was developed, and Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer (leaning forward with hat), Director of Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Project, and physicist at CA Technological Institute, view the base of the steel tower on which the first atomic bomb hung when tested near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

By Peter Rickwood, Vienna, 2 January 2026 Journalists who broke US rules barring them from Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after destruction of the Japanese cities by US atom bombs in 1945 brought more than eyewitness accounts of devastation to their readers. Their reporting contested rigorous efforts to suppress knowledge about the effects of radiation from… Read More Atomic Reporters 2025 wrap up, and watch ‘Bombshell’—a new documentary about journalism and nuclear weapons

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