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Saplings grown from Hiroshima bomb 'survivor tree'

Seeds from a tree which survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester ahead of the 80th anniversary ...
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Hiroshima museum continues to receive artifacts 80 years after atomic bombing

With fewer atomic bomb survivors still alive to share their stories, donated materials are becoming more and more vital for ...

Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. Many aging survivors ...

See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of new nuclear warfare

For more than half a century, chimes have rung out across the Japanese city of Hiroshima every morning at exactly 8:15 ...

Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima: What's changed?

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world ...

Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since A-bomb

Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on leaders to heed the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and warned of the consequences of the ...
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80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, disarmament advocates with ties to the bombings speak out

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 80 years after the atomic bomb, the world still grapples with the fallout

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, survivors continue searching for remains and healing—and ...

Hiroshima survivor to reflect on atomic bombings in ceremony

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...
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80 Years On, Chilling Photos Of The Hiroshima Bombing Remind Us Why Nuclear Weapons Are Terrifying

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a moral necessity

It is an act of historical myopia to pretend that the atomic bombings were callous. They were the cost of hard-fought peace.