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Hiroshima survivor to reflect on atomic bombings in ceremony
Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...
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 ...
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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 ...
80 years after the atomic bomb: A photo gallery from Hiroshima
A bird flies past the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Monday, August 4, 2025 as Japan will mark 80th anniversary of the WWII U ...
See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb
On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...
The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...