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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 ...
80 years later, you can still see the shadow of a Hiroshima bomb victim
In the wake of the blast, these eerie shadows were left etched into surfaces across the city—almost like a photo negative of ...
80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Haunting photos show what happened that day in 1945.
On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
‘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.
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Hiroshima’s bombing legacy: What radiation did to a city in 1945
Japan marks 80 years since Hiroshima bombing, remembering 140,000 lost and survivors’ calls for nuclear disarmament.
‘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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Disfigured, shamed and forgotten: The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb
At 08:15 on August 6, 1945, as a nuclear bomb was falling like a stone through the skies over Hiroshima, Lee Jung-soon was on ...