Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a 93-year old Japanese man, is the first ever double certified "hibakusha," radiation survivor, for having lived through both the August 6, 1945 atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima and the August 9,...
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In the sadness of war in the closing days of World War II, the United States of America released the atomic bomb known as Fat Man against the people of Nagasaki, Japan and has been to this day - the last atomic...
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"Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945 Posted on 06 August 2008 by Kevin Today in history, on this day August 6, 1945, U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima...
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Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. Tibbets died at his Columbus home. He was 92 and insisted for six decades after the war that he had no regrets about the mission and slept just fine at...
"The U.S. Library of Congress has two books of notes written by two scientists involved in Japan's unsuccessful attempt to develop atomic bombs during the war, it was learned recently."
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Saturday to renew calls for the abolition of nuclear arms on the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing...
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