{
  "id": 329356,
  "title": "Nuclear age began 81 years ago with lies, could end the same way",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/nuclear-age-began-81-years-ago-with-lies-could-end-the-same-way",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-07T23:58:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/nuclear-age-began-81-years-ago-with-lies-could-end-the-same-way/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The atomic age began with a lie. Eighty-one years ago this week, a single American airplane, flying almost unnoticed over a Japanese city, dropped a single bomb that destroyed the entire city. Three days later another American plane destroyed a second city. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 killed […] The post Nuclear age began 81 years ago…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}