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Japan's Kishida sees growing chance of Russia using nuclear weapons

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was "increasingly real", welcoming a visit by the U.S. ambassador to Hiroshima, the first city to suffer a nuclear attack.

Reuters

Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the environment

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out. On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl’s reactor number four melted down as a result of human error, releasing vast quantities of radioactive…

The Conversation

Canadian reconstruction aid to Tonga 40 years ago points the way today

Tonga is still assessing the devastation of January’s volcanic explosion that was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

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Scottish Parliament accepts peace tree to commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

SNP MSP Bill Kidd, who opposes nuclear weapons, came up with an idea that was accepted by the Parliament

Daily Record

Tonga earthquake: Islands hit by huge 6.2 magnitude tremor after volcano eruption

Tonga has been hit by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake just two weeks after the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption, which was more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb

Daily Mirror

NASA: Tonga Volcano Hundreds of Times Stronger than Hiroshima

The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said, as survivors on January 15 described how the devastating blast "messed up our brains,” Agence France Press (AFP) reported. The NASA Earth Observatory said the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano spewed…

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Tonga volcano ‘hundreds of times’ more powerful than Hiroshima bomb explosion, NASA says

The undersea volcano that erupted off the coast of Tonga this month was “hundreds of times” more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima in World War II, according to NASA.

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Tonga volcanic eruption ‘thousand times’ more powerful than Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa says

Amount of energy released could be equivalent to that of 4 to 18 megatons of TNT

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Vending machine to offer fried oysters overseas

HIROSHIMA -- "One day, fried oysters could replace hot dogs as America's favorite food," oyster farmer Takashi Suzuki said with starry eyes.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

3 billion yen. siphoned out of Hiroshima nursing home operator's bank account

Hiroshima-based social welfare corporation Sun Phoenix, which operates special nursing homes for the elderly in that prefecture and in Tokyo and Okayama, effectively sold its management rights, which is not allowed by the central government, and about 3 billion yen in its bank account was siphoned away, The Yomiuri Shimbun…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Dinosaur food and Hiroshima bomb survivors: maidenhair trees are 'living fossils' and your new favourite plant

Most of us are captivated by the thought of a “living fossil”, which is any organism that appeared millions of years ago in the fossil record and survives today, relatively unchanged.

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Experts: Peak has possibly passed in some prefs

Quasi-emergency priority measures implemented in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and Okinawa prefectures on Jan. 9 seem to have blunted the spike in novel coronavirus cases, with some experts predicting that the peak may have passed in some areas.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of people etched on sidewalks?

The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII left shadows of people on the ground and buildings. Here's why.

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