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Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since A-bomb
NAGASAKI, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary 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 ...
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Japan commemorates 80 years since Nagasaki nuclear bomb attack
The American nuclear bomb attack on the Japanese city on 9 August 1945 killed around 70,000 people and left many more ...
How the atomic bombing of Nagasaki tore apart Japan’s understanding of motherhood
Eighty years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aging survivors — some more than 100 years old — reveal the ...
How the Japanese City of Kokura Narrowly Avoided Nagasaki's A-Bomb
Serving this time as a weather scout on Special Bombing Mission No. 16, the American aircraft spotted mostly clear skies above the city targeted for the second successive nuclear punch that the United ...
History Today: When US dropped ‘Fat Man’ on Japan’s Nagasaki
August 9, 1945 marks the day when the US dropped its second atomic bomb, the ‘Fat Man’, on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, ...
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Representative to Japan: China Pressure Behind Nagasaki Memorial Seating Snub
Taiwan's representative to Japan says China is behind a snub in which Taiwanese delegates to a Nagasaki atomic bombing ...
‘If the Allies Land on Japan’s Shores, Kill the POWs’: The Fight to Survive Nagasaki
An exclusive excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima recounts the tale of one the few western eye-witnesses, a POW, and the guard ...