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Filmmakers, San Francisco Japantown museum reflect on 80-years since first atomic bomb

This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...

The Case for the Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later

Revisiting the math and morality of the Allied forces’ decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Opinion: I survived an atomic bomb. It’s time to end the nuclear threat.

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two ...
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80 years after atomic blast, Hiroshima’s trees still tell the story

When the Japanese city of Hiroshima became the site of the first-ever use of a nuclear weapon in war, two-thirds of the city ...

See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Here’s how big our nuclear arsenal is 80 years after the first atomic bomb

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were ...

How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors

As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who ...
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Bockscar: We Visited the B-29 Bomber That Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Nagasaki

Key Points and Summary – Eighty years ago this week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, forcing the end of ...

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Haunting photos show what happened that day in 1945.

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Nagasaki Franciscan monastery that survived atomic blast still stands as messenger of peace

St. Kolbe was captured by the German occupiers of Poland on Feb. 17, 1941 – first placed in the murderous Pawiak Gestapo ...

Nagasaki remembers atomic bomb victims 80 years on with minute of silence

A woman offers prayer in the rain at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, as Japan commemorates the 80th anniversary of atomic bomb drop, Nagasaki, Japan 08.08.25 ...