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The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...
The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...
Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her ...
It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.
On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, survivors continue searching for remains and healing—and ...
As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.
At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...
The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...
Long Islanders honor the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, urging global leaders to prevent future nuclear ...
Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing nearly 200,000 people. Months before, U.S. bombers obliterated ...
* Japan has so far recognised the total number of deaths from the bombings, including from radiation illness and injuries, as ...
On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.