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80 years after atomic bombing, Nagasaki and Tri-Cities forever linked

At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki, “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was ...

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 ...

The Little-Known Role of Jimmy Doolittle in Nagasaki Atomic Bombing

Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and ...
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Nagasaki commemorates victims of atomic bombing 80 years on

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday commemorated the victims of the atomic bombing 80 years ago, as global concerns ...

Powerful AP photos show the scars of a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary ...

‘A Scene From Hell.’ Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings Share Their Stories in Atomic People

PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.
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At Peace Memorial Mass in Nagasaki on anniversary of atomic bombing, people encouraged to bring Christ’s love and peace to the world

Participants in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...