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Photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and today

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...
NBC New York

80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of rising nuclear threat

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 support of global leaders ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Humanizing the dire toll of nuclear warfare

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Smithsonian Magazine

World War II

Roosevelt at the height of World War II The Lost Memoir of a Hiroshima Survivor Was Rediscovered. Now, It Will Be Published ...
The Washington Post

My ancestors fought in WWII. Hiroshima is plagued by shallow reading.

Donald G. McNeil Jr., a former global health reporter for the New York Times, is the author of “The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons From 25 Years of Covering Pandemics.” I had dinner the other night in a ...