The citizens of Hiroshima did not think of their atomic-bombing as an atrocity—until, months after the event, they heard that foreign publications had suggested that it was. Nor are the Japanese ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

What if this was the final lesson you would ever teach? Atomic bomb survivor and former teacher Kajiya Fumiaki, age 85, prepares one last lesson for the children of an Osaka elementary school.

ENGLISH readers will welcome this authoritative account by Prof. Bohr of the application of his theory to atomic structure. The essay has been translated from the Zeitschrift fur Physik by L.

This time we introduce "A Final Lesson: Atomic Bomb Survivor Kajiya Fumiaki," which shows an ex-teacher and hibakusha, Kajiya Fumiaki trying to deliver his story to elementary school pupils.

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...