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80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, disarmament advocates with ties to the bombings speak out

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

Letters to the Editor: Readers debate the 'moral necessity' of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...
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Nagasaki marks 80th A-bomb anniversary as survivors put hopes of nuclear ban in the hands of youth

The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands ...

Peace demonstrators gather in Oak Ridge to mark 80th anniversary of bombing of Nagasaki

Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener sings with The Peaceabilities as Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance holds a peace vigil for 80th ...

How the Japanese City of Kokura Narrowly Avoided Nagasaki's A-Bomb

“Fat Man” was originally intended for a different Japanese city.

Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since A-bomb

NAGASAKI, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the ...

Nagasaki marks 80th A-bomb anniversary as survivors put hopes of nuke ban in the hands of youth

Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city 80 years ago, with survivors determined to make their ...

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 ...

80 years after atomic bombing. Nagasaki and Tri-Cities forever linked

In the community that became the Tri-Cities, workers raced during World War II to create the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, just three days after an atomic bomb fueled with uranium ...