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80th anniversary: A look at the memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another ...
Disfigured, shamed and forgotten: The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb
According to a study by the Gyeonggi Welfare Foundation, some survivors were forced to clear rubble and recover bodies. While ...
‘A Scene From Hell.’ Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings Share Their Stories in Atomic People
PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.
Hiroshima 80: The Decision to Surrender
Eighty years ago, the U.S. used the first atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Key figures from the U.S. and Japan ...
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Sunrise bell ringing ceremony to mark Hiroshima anniversary in Oak Ridge
Wednesday will mark 80 years since the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. An event to commemorate and reflect on the anniversary is ...
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New books this week: unconventional novels and an oral history of Hiroshima, Nagasaki
An oral history of the atomic bomb detonations 80 years ago leads this week's list of publishing highlights, which also ...
Photos of searchers seeking victims of a Hiroshima bombing 80 years later on a nearby island
When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural ...
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Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”
Thirty years after this magazine published John Hersey’s “ Hiroshima ,” I sat in his classroom at Yale, hoping to learn how ...
‘Children like me had to carry bodies’: Hiroshima survivors urge world not to forget 80 years on
With over 12,000 nuclear warheads still in existence in the world, Maroosha Muzaffar asks are we forgetting the horrors ...