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Japan imperial family to visit Nagasaki atomic bomb site in Sept.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko will visit Nagasaki next month, the last in a ...

Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima: What's changed?

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world ...

Was dropping atomic bombs on Japan justified? 80 years later, views have changed

The survey was conducted ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The ...

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, ...
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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

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese ...

Remembering the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the ties to Oak Ridge

Venesa Torres of Oak Ridge watches as citizens ring the International Friendship Bell at A.K. Bissell Park at 6:47 a.m. to ...
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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 ...

On This Day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

On August 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days ...

80 years after Nagasaki, Hiroshima: Ohio's connections to atomic bombs that ended WWII

Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the ...

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 ...