atomic bomb

Stain on humanity

Richard Overy questions the morality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Did the bombs make no difference at all? We will never know for sure

Ian Buruma

Nagasaki shouldn’t have politicized its A-bomb ceremony

The wrong headlines have been generated, just as always seems to be the case when politics intrudes on what ought to be strictly non-political

Philip Patrick

The myth that Hiroshima was necessary

The ‘we had no choice’ excuse has had twenty-first century consequences

Peter Van Buren

How Klaus Fuchs’s treachery may have averted Armageddon

Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close reviewed

Jay Elwes

Books

Where were you when you read John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’?

Mr Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima by Jeremy Treglown reviewed

Stephen Phillips