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PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.
Eighty years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aging survivors — some more than 100 years old — reveal the ...
As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.
The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...
It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.
How can we celebrate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, knowing that victory was bought by the dropping of atomic bombs? For ...
It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.
* Japan has so far recognised the total number of deaths from the bombings, including from radiation illness and injuries, as ...
Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. military's dropping of an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima ushered in the age of nuclear weapons. Following are some ...
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Hayashi Yoshimasa, also weighed in on the issue, highlighting the immense suffering caused by the atomic bombings and the incompatibility of nuclear weapons use ...
Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...
TOKYO, Jan. 6, 2010 -- The only person officially recognized as having been twice in the bull's eye of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has died. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, aged 93, passed away Monday.