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The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of global danger, remains the closest it has ever been to midnight. Scientists warn climate change and nuclear threats keep humanity on high alert.
For some, doomsday predictions propel them towards action, in a desperate bid to take control. Fear-based marketing preys on our propensity to avoid loss or confronting mortality. Consumers are ...
Originally released in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, and centred on the story of real Japanese women who suffered ...
Eighty years have passed since the end of a war that brought Japan to the brink of destruction and claimed countless lives in ...
Dr Edward Thomas JonesSenior Lecturer in EconomicsBangor Business School, Bangor University From high-level talks in Davos to dramatic ...
The cities will celebrate their 'sister city' relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan.
Helfand’s International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, the same year the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was passed at the UN, much due ...
This year marks another solemn anniversary of the atomic bombings—80 years since the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 120 ...
As Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a local leader is calling for ...
Flag-waving hyper-nationalists in America – and other places – conveniently forget the threat of nuclear war, and have become increasingly chauvinistic and escapist.
Eighty years is a long time. It takes us back to World War Two in 1945, with VE and VJ Day on May 8 and August 15, respectively.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the Doomsday Clock are the closest they’ve ever been to midnight.