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How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors
As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who did not live through them?
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 ...
Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima: What's changed?
TOKYO -- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the ...
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’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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...