Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92
Severely disfigured when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, she spent her life warning others about the ...
That time the US military burned down one of its own bases with a ‘bat bomb’
A Pennsylvania dentist thought a “bat bomb," with 1,000 bats starting fires, would end the war faster than the atomic bomb.
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4 Alternatives to Dropping the Bomb on Japan, and Why the U.S. Didn't Pursue Them
Today, 9 countries wield nuclear weapons with the cumulative power to end human civilization in minutes. Yet in the nearly 80 ...
Japanese atomic bomb survivors say Nobel Peace Prize gives fresh impetus to disarmament push
TOKYO (AP) — Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said receiving a Nobel Peace Prize has given ...
How Counting Down to Midnight on New Year’s Became a Tradition
The first NYE countdown can arguably be traced to the final seconds of 1957, when prominent radio correspondent Ben Grauer counted down the New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square, ...
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VOX POPULI: If an atomic bomb had not been dropped on city of Nagasaki
A day after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. military officers in Guam said Tokyo should be the next target, not a small local city. But Washington struck down the proposal ...
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Toshiyuki Mimaki: Let’s save humanity from nuclear weapons
An interview with Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and co-president of the Japanese foundation Nihon Hidankyo, Toshiyuki Mimaki ...