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Legacy of Japan’s champion of medicine, faith who persevered after atomic bomb endures
Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Here’s how big our nuclear arsenal is 80 years after the first atomic bomb
The first series of thermonuclear tests took place on Nov. 1, 1952, on the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll ...
Descendants of atomic bomb plane crewman and double survivor team up to abolish nuclear weapons
When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was onboard both of the ...
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‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky’ documents motivation and development of the atomic bomb
The U.S. altered the course of history 80 years ago when it dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. It was an audacious move that ...