R.N.C. Skims Over Trump’s ‘Unfinished Business’ in Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention this week has portrayed President Trump as a strong commander in chief facing down enemies and demanding more of...
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Iran to Allow U.N. Inspections of Previously Blocked Nuclear Sites
WASHINGTON — Iran has agreed to let United Nations inspectors into two previously blocked nuclear sites, officials said on Wednesday, reversing itself during an international...
New Video Shows Largest Hydrogen Bomb Ever Exploded
Hydrogen bombs — the world’s deadliest weapons — have no theoretical size limit. The more fuel, the bigger the explosion. When the United States in...
Instead of Isolating Iran, U.S. Finds Itself on the Outside Over Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON — A diplomatic standoff over restoring international sanctions against Iran may be the most vivid example yet of how the United States has largely...
U.S. Heads to United Nations to Demand ‘Snapback’ of Sanctions Against Iran
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will formally demand on Thursday that the United Nations punish Iran with bruising sanctions for violating an agreement to limit...
U.N. Security Council Rejects U.S. Proposal to Extend Arms Embargo on Iran
The United States suffered an embarrassing diplomatic defeat on Friday when the United Nations Security Council rejected a proposal to indefinitely extend an arms embargo...
In a Nuclear Arms Race, the World Can Be Destroyed in a Flash
The nuclear weapons dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago this week wreaked a devastation never before seen in human warfare. Yet they were...
The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb
FALLOUTThe Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the WorldBy Lesley M. M. Blume Seventy-five years ago, on the bright clear morning of...
After Hiroshima’s Carnage, Setsuko Thurlow Devoted Her Life to Peace
On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Setsuko Thurlow, then just 13, reported for her first full day of duty in Japan’s increasingly desperate war...
Claude Eatherly, the Hiroshima Pilot Turned Antinuclear Symbol
The latest article from “Beyond the World War II We Know,” a series from The Times that documents lesser-known stories from the war, looks at...