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U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb on Japan, ending WWII

On This Day, Aug. 9: U.S. drops second atomic bomb on Japan, ending WWII

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 after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

CNN on MSN · 7d

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 of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades,

USA Today · 3d

Japan marks 80 years since Nagasaki atomic bombing

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing as the country's Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, reaffirmed its commitment to a world without nuclear weapons.

The Oak Ridger on MSN36m

The dropping of the atomic bombs: Oak Ridger shares excerpt of her book 'Robertsville'

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.

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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 ...

The Oak Ridger on MSN6d

Nichols: 'The atomic bomb did not win the war; it ended it'

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)7d

‘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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

7dOpinion

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 ...

Why surviving the Nagasaki atomic bomb made these women feel ashamed

Women who survived the Nagasaki bomb tell CNN about its impact. Eighty years after the US bombings of Nagasaki, aging ...

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 ...

Dark Docs Official on MSN1h

Stopping an Atomic Bomb: The Secret Mission to Stop Germany from Winning WW2

How close was Germany to developing an atomic bomb in World War 2? Learn the story of the secret commando raid to destroy ...

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