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80 years after atomic blast, Hiroshima’s trees still tell the story

Aug. 6 marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The blast destroyed two-thirds of the Japanese port city, instantly killing about 140,000 people. The focus at memorials ...
The Japan TimesOpinion

What happens when the last hibakusha is gone?

Time is becoming Hiroshima’s most urgent problem. The dilemma is quietly measured in a granite structure not far from ground ...
Penn Live

80 years after atomic bombing of Hiroshima, ‘we face a greater nuclear threat than ever’

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

A forgotten chapter: The stories of Allied POWs in Nagasaki during the atomic bombing

Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...
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Japan’s atomic bomb blast victim identified after 8 decades with DNA analysis

The 13-year-old victim, named Hatsue Kajiyama, died on August 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, was dropped on ...

California girl offers paper cranes at Sadako’s monument in Hiroshima

A student from California offered thousands of paper cranes at the Children’s Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima City in November. Kyreece Imada, 14, who is engaged in activities ...
Wired

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...
The Strategist

Bookshelf: a people-centric history of the Hiroshima bombing

As the title implies, Iain MacGregor’s The Hiroshima Men is a people-centric history of the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. In my view it’s only partially successful in that aim. In telling the ...
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See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb

Eighty years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the city has transformed. The bombing immediately killed 80,000 people and destroyed 70% of the city's buildings. Today, Hiroshima is a ...
WUNC

Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

Hiroshima urges Japan gov't maintain no-nuke policy in written opinion

The Hiroshima prefectural assembly on Monday unanimously adopted a statement urging the Japanese government to adhere to the ...
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Why Avatar Director James Cameron Thinks His Atomic Bomb Movie Will Be His Least Popular

James Cameron is the king of the blockbusters, but he has a feeling that the atomic bomb movie he wants to make won't be a big hit.