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80 years after atomic bombing. Nagasaki and Tri-Cities forever linked
The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...
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How Nazi secrets triggered the ultimate moral dilemma – and led to Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb
That weapon – and the bombs dropped so soon after on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – are often credited to the Manhattan Project, ...
Filmmakers, SF 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 bombs that the United States dropped on Japan on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945.
The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...
Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The man who survived both atomic bombs
There are not many people that have survived a nuclear attack. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person that officially survived ...
How the Japanese City of Kokura Narrowly Avoided Nagasaki's A-Bomb
“Fat Man” was originally intended for a different Japanese city.
Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors
Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health ...
British POW who witnessed Hiroshima atomic bomb was 'dangled in hell and hauled out'
On this day in 1945, the world was changed forever when the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ...
Atomic bombs did not need to be dropped on Japanese cities in WWII, says author
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States was not necessary, an acclaimed novelist and speechwriter has ...
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Reflections on the mountain and the mushroom cloud reveal
Today is an odd and somewhat unsettling confluence of events. It is the 80th anniversary of the day our country dropped an ...
Cork native digging own grave in prisoner of war camp as Nagasaki atomic bomb detonated: Witness to rain of ruin
Aidan McCarthy among a dozen Irish in city when second devastating device dropped by United States Air Force on August 9th, ...