With no single leader, or set of leaders, Japan was led down “a maximally ruinous and self-destructive path” during the second world war, argues Eri Hotta. Read the historian’s essay for our Archive 1945 project in full https://t.co/nko34kiP4cIllustration: Dan Williams https://t.co/kk3SjRRNhJ ...

80 years ago today, on August 9th, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Three days earlier, the US had dropped a separate bomb on the city of Hiroshima. These bombs changed the course of history.The two bombs are estimated to have killed roughly 200,000 people in both cities. Half of them died on the first day. Many others died of burns and radiation sickness in the days, the weeks, and the months that followed.The destructive power of this new type of weapon was ...

Japan’s leaders led the country down “a maximally ruinous and self-destructive path” during the second world war, argues a historian in a guest essay for our 1945 Archive project https://t.co/kGEOh23sbq ...

Also overseas, Japan and the world tonight, marking 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki. And all nearly a quarter of a million lives were lost by the aerial assault, which many historians say helped usher the end of World War II.NBC's Janice Mackie Freyer has the look at how the city is honoring those lives lost while fighting to ensure history does not repeat itself. Every morning at exactly 8:15, the chimes ring out across Hiroshim ...