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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 did not live through them?
How the atomic bombing of Nagasaki tore apart Japan’s understanding of motherhood
Eighty years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aging survivors — some more than 100 years old — reveal the ...
Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war 80 years after atomic bomb attack
The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US atom bomb ...
Nagasaki mayor warns of new threat of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since atomic bomb
The western Japanese city was levelled on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, ...
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Powerful AP photos show the scars of a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing
The photos, originally published in 2015 by Eugene Hoshiko, the AP chief photographer in Tokyo, show more than remnants of ...
Nagasaki’s bells ring for the first time in 80 years to mark US atomic bombing
Nagasaki commemorated the 80th anniversary of the US atomic attack with twin cathedral bells ringing in unison in Nagasaki ...
On This Day, Aug. 9: U.S. drops second atomic bomb on Japan, ending WWII
On August 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days ...
As Hiroshima marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing, survivor says "nuclear weapons and humanity cannot co-exist"
The United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II.
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, ...
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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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped
On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...