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Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war 80 years after atomic bomb attack

The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US atom bomb ...

Nagasaki mayor warns of new threat of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since atomic bomb

The western Japanese city was levelled on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, ...

World marks 80 years since US dropped atomic bomb on Japan as global powers still trade nuclear threats

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

Filmmakers, San Francisco Japantown museum reflect on 80-years since first atomic bomb

This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...

The Case for the Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later

Revisiting the math and morality of the Allied forces’ decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two ...
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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...