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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.
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Marseille remembers Hiroshima and signs the cities’ appeal in favor of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
On Wednesday, August 6, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in response to the ...
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.
80 years ago: Truman’s decision to drop atomic bomb changed history
Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Hiroshima Memorial Art Installation Transforms Shuttered Waikiki Natatorium
Art installation brings Hiroshima memorial to life at Waikiki's historic but closed natatorium, marking 80th anniversary with ...
The Week in Pictures: August 1-8
From Israel’s ongoing war and blockade on Gaza, Hiroshima commemorating the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing, wildfires raging across Europe and the United States, and Russian President ...
America Must Never Apologize for Dropping the Bombs on Japan
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities ...
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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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Kendal campaigners mark Hiroshima 80th anniversary
A group of Kendal campaigners gathered by the River Kent to mark the 80th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Women who survived U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Japan speaks out 80 years later
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the number of people who remember those fateful days is dwindling. CNN's Hanako Montgomery sat down ...
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In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
W]e soon began to raise pyramids of bodies and pour fuel on them to set them afire.” The memory would never leave him. This week the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the bombings of ...