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Grandkids of men who experienced Japan A-bomb attacks work for peace 80 years later
Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two American B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...
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Japan’s dithering wartime leaders were just as harmful as European dictators, says Eri Hotta
Even General Tojo Hideki, often considered one of the most bellicose leaders of wartime Japan, and who was later executed by ...
‘From Hiroshima to Hope’: Ceremony keeps history alive
At Green Lake, those committed to remembering the destruction of the atomic bombs and committed to the promise of peace, ...
80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of new nuclear warfare
The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...
Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima: What's changed?
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world ...
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Chilling 80-Year-Old Photos Of The Bombing Of Hiroshima Remind Us Why Nuclear Weapons Are Terrifying
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...
Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing
Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. Many aging survivors ...
Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since A-bomb
Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on leaders to heed the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and warned of the consequences of the ...
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Hiroshima at 80: As Japan’s commitment to nuclear abolition wanes, activists dig in
As the nonproliferation movement enters a tenuous new era, Japan’s firsthand experience with nuclear warfare is crucial in ...
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In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
W]e soon began to raise pyramids of bodies and pour fuel on them to set them afire.” The memory would never leave him. This week the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the bombings of ...
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Survivors of Hiroshima: 'There is horror here' - USA TODAY
They are known as hibakusha — survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 and another bomb dropped on the coastal city of Nagasaki three days later.
Grandchildren of 2 men who experienced both A-bomb attacks in Japan work for peace 80 years later
When the United States dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s ...