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NAGASAKI, Japan — (AP) — The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that ...
Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She ...
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...
A U.S. military unit dropped dummy bombs in various parts of Japan as part of exercises aimed at training forces to gain the ...
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its ...
The head of the island’s economic office attended commemorations in Japan for the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...
A nuclear winter - a feared scenario following a nuclear war - 'would cause an unfathomable loss of life' numbering billions ...
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Days that changed our world
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." – Albert Einstein Eighty years have passed since the twin horrors ...
At the Nagasaki peace conference, joined by representatives from 138 cities in 16 countries, discussions were held on ...
NEVER use nuclear weapons again, or we’re finished,” 93-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki bombing Hiroshi Nishioka said at ...
In the closing days of World War II, the crew of the USS Indianapolis faced a horrific decision - burn aboard their sink ...