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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org

This week marks the 80th anniversaries of the United States' atomic bombings on Japan. Siegfried Hecker, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, writes of his concern that "instead of continued learning about the dangers of nuclear war, we are unlearning the most important lessons."

aug 6, 2025, 5:58 pm • 27 17

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org

Thirty years ago, while director at Los Alamos, Hecker wrote an essay on the 50th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "I had questions about the decision to use the atomic bomb that I couldn’t answer: Was it necessary? Was it right?"

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