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How the Atomic Bombs Reshaped the World

August 3, 2025
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“‘Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?’ The befuddlement of 5-year-old Myeko Nakamura moments after the first atomic bomb fell at 8:15 on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, as related in John Hersey’s classic account Hiroshima, remains to a large extent our befuddlement today. … Above all we are mystified that today’s leaders aren’t doing more to prevent a greater horror than Hiroshima; if anything, led by America’s history-shredding president, Donald Trump, they are making that prospect more likely.”

FP’s Michael Hirsh wrote these words five years ago to mark 75 years since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. Five years on, in Trump’s second term, Hirsh’s analysis remains as relevant as ever. This edition of The Reading List revisits the legacy of the bombs over the past eight decades and considers what the world has—and hasn’t—learned from the nuclear atrocities of 1945.


A mushroom cloud

A mushroom cloud

The Hiroshima Effect

Many years after the first nuclear bomb fell, we are grateful it hasn’t happened again, mystified it didn’t, and terrified it still might, Michael Hirsh writes.


A man stands amid the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945. The shell of the Genbaku Dome is the only building left standing.

A man stands amid the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945. The shell of the Genbaku Dome is the only building left standing.

America’s Nuclear Rules Still Allow Another Hiroshima

U.S. leaders must take responsibility for past nuclear atrocities, Adam Mount writes.


Two men sitting stiffly and looking at the camera

Two men sitting stiffly and looking at the camera

The Dangerous Illusion of Japan’s Unconditional Surrender

For decades, U.S. foreign policy has been badly distorted by the way that World War II ended, Marc Gallicchio writes.


An aerial view of a destroyed city

An aerial view of a destroyed city

The Forgotten Bombing

Eighty years on, the focus on the atomic bombs overlooks the impact of the Tokyo air raid, Richard Overy writes.


A giant orange mushroom cloud explodes on the horizon during the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

A giant orange mushroom cloud explodes on the horizon during the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

The Long Shadow of Oppenheimer’s Trinity Test

Today’s nukes would make the destroyer of worlds shudder, Jack Detsch writes.

The post How the Atomic Bombs Reshaped the World appeared first on Foreign Policy.

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