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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 ...

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.

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

At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...

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

Nagasaki has marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city in Japan. Survivors are determined to ...

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 ...
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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 ...