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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 ...
‘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 author honors grandfather through illustrated war tale
Nagata vividly remembers the account of his grandfather surviving the Kure attacks, only to nearly die of hunger and fatigue ...
Hiroshima prepares to mark 80 years since atomic bombing
Preparations were underway in Japan’s Hiroshima on Tuesday (August 5), just one day of ahead of a major memorial ceremony ...
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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 ...
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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 ...