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Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a moral necessity

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

Filmmakers, San Francisco Japantown museum reflect on 80-years since first atomic bomb

Inside a tiny museum in San Francisco's Japantown, there is a powerful message about the atrocities of the atomic ...

Filmmaker James Cameron on his vow to a survivor of both WWII atomic bombs

Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Ernest J. Moniz speak with Christiane Amanpour ...

The Case for the Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later

Revisiting the math and morality of the Allied forces’ decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Grandkids of men who experienced Japan A-bomb attacks work for peace 80 years later

Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two American B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

80 years after atomic bombing. Nagasaki and Tri-Cities forever linked

The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...

Contributor: Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a moral necessity

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.

Grandchildren of 2 men who experienced both A-bomb attacks in Japan work for peace 80 years later

When the United States dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s ...
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Japan’s dithering wartime leaders were just as harmful as European dictators, says Eri Hotta

Even General Tojo Hideki, often considered one of the most bellicose leaders of wartime Japan, and who was later executed by ...
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Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

Sobering simulation shows true devastation of Hiroshima atomic bomb 80 years on from tragedy

A Hiroshima atomic bomb simulation shows the extent of the damage done to the city 80 years ago when the Little Boy bomb was ...

Opinion: 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 ...