80 Years After Hiroshima, Nuclear Risks Are Rising

80 Years After Hiroshima, Nuclear Risks Are Rising

New channels of communication and wider support for the IAEA can help prevent catastrophe.

Four people stand in a memorial park with a large sculpture in front of them. In the distance is a destroyed building. August 5, 2025, 3:47 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Eighty years after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, an alarming number of protracted crises are—or risk—pitting nuclear powers against each other. U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he moved two nuclear submarines to “appropriate regions” in response to a social media message by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may not have resulted in a disastrous escalation. But it was a timely reminder that the “ ultimat