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Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing as aging survivors frustrated by growing nuke threat
Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...
Eight decades after Hiroshima, a new nuclear arms race is underway
NAGASAKI, Japan • Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian, ...
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Aging atomic bomb survivors find their voice late in life and push for end of nuclear weapons
Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a dwindling number of the aging Japanese survivors are ...
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Mighty Atom: how the A-bombs shaped Japanese arts
From Godzilla’s fiery atomic breath to post-apocalyptic anime and harrowing depictions of radiation sickness, the influence ...
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Why Oppenheimer’s Work Still Shapes Global Nuclear Policy
J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb, led the Manhattan Project which developed the first nuclear weapons used in World War II, resulting in devastating impacts on Hiroshima ...
Column: On an August anniversary, memories of the atomic bomb from a crew member who dropped it on Nagasaki
The late Ray Gallagher of Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood was an assistant flight engineer on the B-29 that dropped the bomb ...
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Cats with hooked and bent tails are considered lucky in this city
In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck, and Nagasaki is the place to find them.They are known as “omagari neko (bent-tail cats)” or “kagi neko (hook cats)” and have their own ...