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New report reveals most nightmarish part of nuclear war. And it’s not the bombs
The most harrowing part of a nuclear war may not be the bombs and the radiation but what comes afterward, a new study has ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...