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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1955, the 10th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 1955, the 10th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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Russia's State Duma approves bill revoking ratification of nuclear test ban treaty in first reading

STORY: Russia's State Duma approves bill revoking ratification of nuclear test ban treaty in first reading DATELINE: Oct. 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:26 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of State Duma sessions (source: Duma telegram) STORYLINE: Russia's lower house of parliament, or State Duma, approved a bill revoking the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in the first reading, it said in a statement Tuesday. Russian lawmakers unanimously approved the bill on the de-ratification of the treaty, and Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin earlier noted that the bill could be considered in the final reading on Oct. 19. "For 23 years we have been waiting for the United States of America to ratify the treaty. But Washington used its double standards and irresponsible approach towards global security issues and still has not done that," Volodin said in a Telegram post. He said that Washington must finally understand that its hegemony will not lea

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Nevada Day anniversary sit-in at Hiroshima

Hiroshima citizens stage a sit-in calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Jan. 27, 2023, to mark the anniversary of the first nuclear test conducted in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2022

(221230) -- BEIJING, Dec. 30, 2022 (Xinhua) -- The combined satellite images show Tonga's Hunga Ha'apai island on April 11, 2021 (L) and Jan. 17, 2022. The orange curve on the right picture, drawn based on geological coordinates, shows the outline of Tonga's Hunga Ha'apai island before the underwater volcano eruption. Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2022 Tonga volcano erupts with rare ferocity The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai underwater volcano of the Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted on Jan. 14-15 and triggered a tsunami. The eruption was more powerful than any nuclear test or any 20th century volcanic eruption. The 57-km plume was the highest ever recorded and the first observational one breaking through the stratosphere and directly into the mesosphere. The impact of the eruption on the global environment and climate has attracted wide attention. The international community has extended a helping hand to Tonga. The Chinese government took the lead in providing the first batch of emerge

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Chiang Kai-shek eyed preemptive strike at China's nuke facilities in 1964

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows U.S. official documents declassified on Oct. 16, 2014. The document shows that Chiang Kai-shek, then the president of the Republic of China, planned a preemptive strike on China's nuclear facilities in 1964, fearing an attack from Beijing after the communist country successfully carried out its first nuclear test earlier in the year.

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Nuclear slogans absent in Pyongyang on 1st anniversary of test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - No references to North Korea's nuclear programs were visible on Pyongyang streets Oct. 9, exactly a year after the country conducted its first nuclear test. The mood was festive in the capital for another event -- the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, which falls on Oct. 10.

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N. Korean Assembly Vice President Yang Hyong Sop in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Yang Hyong Sop, a vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, flies into Beijing on May 26 for an undisclosed visit. Yang apparently is the first senior North Koran official to visit China since Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in October last year. No Chinese official was at the Beijing airport to greet the North Korean visitor, and there is possibility that Yang was on transit to the third country

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N. Korea holds public rally to mark nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Officers of the Korean People's Army stand in lines at a rally held at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Oct. 20 to celebrate the country's first nuclear test.

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N. Korea holds public rally to mark nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Over a hundred thousand people gather at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Oct. 20 to celebrate the country's first nuclear test.

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Abe meets Roh for talks amid reports of N. Korea nuclear test

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun toast to each other during a dinner hosted by the president at the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on Oct 9. The first summit between the two leaders took place just hours after North Korea said it had conducted a nuclear test.

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Abe meets Roh for talks amid reports of N. Korea nuclear test

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun toast to each other during a dinner hosted by the president at the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on Oct 9. The first summit between the two leaders took place just hours after North Korea said it had conducted a nuclear test.

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Abe heads for fence-mending summits in China, S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, accompanied by his wife Akie, departs from Tokyo's Haneda airport for Beijing on Oct. 8 for his first summit talks with Chinese and South Korean leaders in hopes of thawing chilled ties and discussing measures to respond to North Korea's threat to conduct a nuclear test.

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plant

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference on March 28 that Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing has cleared the last hurdle for a test run. He said the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture, which hosts the plant, will sign the necessary safety agreement for trial operations with plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.

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Antinuclear groups protest U.S. subcritical test

Antinuclear groups in the world's first A-bombed city of Hiroshima protest on Dec. 12 against a U.S. subcritical nuclear test conducted on Dec. 11 in front of the Memorial Cenotaph in the Peace Park.

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Peaceful demonstration near the Trinity Site

Photo taken Oct. 2, 2021, shows Tina Cordova and other members of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium staging a peaceful demonstration outside the entrance to the Trinity Site, where the world's first nuclear weapon test was conducted on July 16, 1945.

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Abe heads for fence-mending summits in China, S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, accompanied by his wife Akie, departs from Tokyo's Haneda airport for Beijing on Oct. 8 for his first summit talks with Chinese and South Korean leaders in hopes of thawing chilled ties and discussing measures to respond to North Korea's threat to conduct a nuclear test. (Kyodo)

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Abe meets Roh for talks amid reports of N. Korea nuclear test

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun toast to each other during a dinner hosted by the president at the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on Oct 9. The first summit between the two leaders took place just hours after North Korea said it had conducted a nuclear test. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea's foreign minister in Beijing en route to New York

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong (C) arrives in Beijing from Pyongyang on April 19, 2016, on his way possibly to New York for a U.N. event. It would be his first trip to the United States since Pyongyang conducted a fourth nuclear test in early January. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, U.S., S. Korea to seek tough U.N. resolution on N. Korea

(From L) U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki and Lim Sung Nam, South Korea's first vice foreign minister, shake hands during a press conference following their talks in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2016. They agreed to closely cooperate in seeking a strong and effective U.N. Security Council resolution on Pyongyang following its recent nuclear test. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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apan, U.S., S. Korea officials meet on N. Korea

(From L) Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the United States and Lim Sung Nam, first vice minister of foreign affairs of South Korea, are to attend a trilateral meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2016. They agreed to keep close ties so the U.N. Security Council will adopt a tougher resolution against North Korea in responding to Pyongyang's globally condemned nuclear test. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea, U.S. confirm tough action on N. Korea

(From L) U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Lim Sung Nam, first vice minister of foreign affairs of South Korea, and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki pose for photos in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2016. The three sides agreed to seek a tough U.N. Security Council resolution against North Korea following its fourth nuclear test. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima citizens protest N. Korea's latest nuclear test

Protestors stage a sit-in at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Jan. 7, 2016, a day after North Korea announced its first ever "successful" hydrogen bomb test. Including survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a group of around 140 people took part in the protest, saying North Korea's latest act is an unacceptable move against the abolishment of nuclear weapons and the achievement of world peace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thousands visit site of first nuclear bomb test

People gather around a black lava obelisk showing the ground zero of the first atomic bomb test, at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin on April 4, 2015. The plutonium bomb exploded just before 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thousands visit site of first nuclear bomb test

People visit the Trinity Site, where the world's first atomic bomb test took place, at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin on April 4, 2015. The plutonium bomb exploded just before 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thousands visit site of first nuclear bomb test 70 years on

Visitors take a photograph in front of a black lava obelisk showing the ground zero of the first atomic bomb test at the Trinity Site at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin on April 4, 2015, which opened to the public the same day. The plutonium bomb was tested just before 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thousands visit site of first nuclear bomb test 70 years on

Local people hold up signs protesting in front of a gate to the Trinity Site, where the world's first atomic bomb test took place, at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin on April 4, 2015, which opened to the public the same day. They gathered to gain recognition and compensation for those affected by the fallout from the atomic bomb test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thousands visit site of first nuclear bomb test 70 years on

Visitors take a photograph in front of a fence surrounding the Trinity Site, where the world's first atomic bomb test took place, at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin on April 4, 2015, which opened to the public the same day. The plutonium bomb was tested just before 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-CTBTO chief visits Hiroshima for CTBTO meeting

Wolfgang Hoffmann, the first executive director of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, speaks to Kyodo News on Aug. 25, 2015, in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima where he attended a meeting of the CTBTO's Group of Eminent Persons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korean Assembly Vice President Yang Hyong Sop in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Yang Hyong Sop, a vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, flies into Beijing on May 26 for an undisclosed visit. Yang apparently is the first senior North Koran official to visit China since Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in October last year. No Chinese official was at the Beijing airport to greet the North Korean visitor, and there is possibility that Yang was on transit to the third country (Kyodo)

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plan

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference on March 28 that Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing has cleared the last hurdle for a test run. He said the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture, which hosts the plant, will sign the necessary safety agreement for trial operations with plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (Kyodo)

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Nuclear slogans absent in Pyongyang on 1st anniversary of test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - No references to North Korea's nuclear programs were visible on Pyongyang streets Oct. 9, exactly a year after the country conducted its first nuclear test. The mood was festive in the capital for another event -- the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, which falls on Oct. 10. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea holds public rally to mark nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Over a hundred thousand people gather at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Oct. 20 to celebrate the country's first nuclear test. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea holds public rally to mark nuclear test

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Officers of the Korean People's Army stand in lines at a rally held at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Oct. 20 to celebrate the country's first nuclear test. (Kyodo)

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U.S. nuclear test films declassified, uploaded to YouTube

An image from YouTube shows a mushroom cloud from a U.S. above-ground nuclear test. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California released the first set of restored films of nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. government from the 1940s to the early 1960s on YouTube on March 15, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. Security Council imposes oil export cap on N. Korea

Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Koro Bessho speaks at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Sept. 11, 2017, after the council unanimously approved a proposal to impose the first restrictions on exports of crude oil and petroleum products to North Korea over its sixth and largest nuclear test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. Security Council imposes oil export cap on N. Korea

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia speaks at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Sept. 11, 2017, after the council unanimously approved a proposal to impose the first restrictions on exports of crude oil and petroleum products to North Korea over its sixth and largest nuclear test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. Security Council imposes oil export cap on N. Korea

Diplomats raise their hands as they vote yes to impose the first restrictions on exports of crude oil and petroleum products to North Korea over its sixth and largest nuclear test, at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Sept. 11, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivors, abductees' kin angry over N. Korea's nuclear test

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui reads aloud a message of protest at North Korea at the city office building on Sept. 9, 2016, after the country conducted its fifth nuclear test earlier that day. The mayor of the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon said the move by North Korea was an "unacceptable act of violence that tramples upon the atomic bomb survivors' wishes for peace and to never allow other people to experience what they suffered." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo