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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 ...

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 ...

Nagasaki remembers atomic bomb victims 80 years on with minute of silence

Some 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki in the US bombing in 1945, three days after Hiroshima. As the town’s mayor, Shiro ...
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The dropping of the atomic bombs: Oak Ridger shares excerpt of her book 'Robertsville'

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.
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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 ...

Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...
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Powerful AP photos show the scars of a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing

The photos, originally published in 2015 by Eugene Hoshiko, the AP chief photographer in Tokyo, show more than remnants of ...
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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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At 80th anniversary Mass in Nagasaki, a plea to bring Christ's love, peace to world

Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...