We were hurt by the war too.

No hibakusha ever again.

• Nuclear bunker sales increase, despite warnings they won't provide protection

  When Bernard Jones Jr. and his wife, Doris, built their dream home, they didn't hold back. A grotto swimming pool with a waterfall for hot summer days. A home theater for cozy winter nights. A fruit orchard to harvest in fall. And a vast underground bunker in case disaster strikes.

  Meanwhile, government disaster experts say bunkers aren't necessary.

  But increasingly, buyers say bunkers offer a sense of security. The market for U.S. bomb and fallout shelters is forecast to grow from $137 million last year to $175 million by 2030, according to a market research report from BlueWeave Consulting. The report says major growth factors include "the rising threat of nuclear or terrorist attacks or civil unrest."

• A Historic Presidential Visit, One Year On: Hibakushas' Stories - A Final Lesson: Atomic Bomb Survivor Kajiya

  

• List of states with nuclear weapons

  Israel is also generally understood to have nuclear weapons,[3][4][5][6][7] but does not acknowledge it, maintaining a policy of deliberate ambiguity.[8] Israel is estimated to possess somewhere between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads.[9][10]

  Nobel Peace Prize 2024: Nihon Hidankyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, speaks in Norway

• Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize for work on nuclear weapons abolition - Atomic Bomb Survivors Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago

  They “help us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable, and to somehow grasp the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons,” Frydnes said Friday in his announcement. He said Nihon Hidankyo’s “extraordinary efforts” have “contributed greatly to the establishment of the nuclear taboo.”

  The Nobel committee also cited the grassroots movement’s work providing thousands of witness accounts, issuing public appeals and sending delegations to the United Nations “to remind the world of the pressing need for nuclear disarmament.”

  The Nobel committee has previously honored efforts toward eradicating nuclear weapons, awarding the 2017 prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. In 1995, British physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs won “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics.”

• Renewing the atomic bomb museum for the future

  The City of Nagasaki is now planning a major renovation of the museum, and is getting students at Nagasaki University involved.

• US Ally Fighter Planes Intercept Chinese Nuclear Bombers

  Tokyo's report showed the bombers were accompanied by a Chinese navy Y-9 electronic intelligence aircraft. The spy plane—identified in the photographs by its under-nose radome—would have scanned the sea while flying the same route.

  "While the Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft and H-6 bombers were circling over the Pacific Ocean, one presumed Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle was flying in the same airspace," Japan's Joint Staff said.

  Japan's Air Self-Defense Force fighters were also scrambled on Saturday and Sunday when a Chinese KQ-200 maritime patrol aircraft flew a similar pattern into the Western Pacific, above waters where the U.S. and Japanese navies conducted frequent military exercises.

  In the 11 months since April 2023, Japan's fighter jets were scrambled 599 times, the data showed.

• How is the Movie "Oppenheimer" Being Received - harnji version in Japan?

  

  Oppenheimer does not directly depict what happened on the ground when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, turning some 100,000 people instantly into ashes, and killed thousands more in the days that followed, mostly civilians.

  "I feel there needs to an answer from Japan to Oppenheimer. Someday, I would like to make that movie," he said in an online dialogue with Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan.

  Nolan heartily agreed.

• I’m an expert in the end of the world. The Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer made me cry in terror.

  

  The USA and Russia each have around 1,500 warheads deployed - ready to launch. Each of these is a hydrogen (or thermonuclear) bomb. Many of these, which are 20 times more destructive than those produced by Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project and which destroyed Hiroshima, sit on the top of ICBMs in land-based silos - in the US in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado - and are ready for a 'launch on warning.'

  What this means is that in the event of the detection of a possible incoming nuclear strike, the president - while they are being rushed to the White House bunker - has perhaps 12 minutes to decide whether to launch all of these missiles. Unlike nuclear missiles on submarines, which are designed to evade a first strike, this is a use-it-or-lose-it situation: the silos will get blown up at the end of those 12 minutes. What could happen next is unimaginable - save for the scientists who have imagined it.