Hiroshima

Divers Embrace The Nuclear History Of Bikini Atoll

James M. Clash | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: James Jim Clash, Adventure, Scuba Diving, Able Test, Marshall Islands, Wwii, Pacific Ocean, Atomic Bomb, Baker Test, Radiation, U.S.S. Saratoga, Bikini Atoll, Nagato, Nitrox, Hiroshima, Slidewide, Travel News

Far off in the Pacific Ocean, 200 feet below the surface, sit a dozen radioactive warships.

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PHOTOS: Two Weeks In Japan

Daniela Perdomo | Posted 05.11.2012

The country is an incredibly beautiful, inspiring place. I was struck by the kindness and patience I was greeted with everywhere I went, despite my inability to speak the language and also with the resilience of the Japanese people in light of all the disasters they have faced in recent years.

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Harry Truman's Lies and Fukushima

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Fukushima, Atomic Energy, Atomic Bomb, Radiation, Hiroshima, Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, World News

No matter how many new reports there will be on this anniversary, the facts remain the same. Nuclear power is far dirtier and far deadlier than anything man has ever created.

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How the Movies Saved My Life

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: The Sixties, Plaza Hotel, 1950s Nyc, Hiroshima, Growing Up in the 50s, Fifties, Mccarthyism, World War II, John Wayne, Culture News

I now write about our American wars without ever having visited a war zone. There, in the '50s and early '60s, I advanced with the marines and the Russians, bombed Tokyo but also experienced (however briefly) Hiroshima after it was atomized.

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The Theology of Armageddon

Robert Koehler | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Military Proselytizing, Nuclear Weapons, Just War Theory, Evangelical Christians, Hiroshima, Wernher Von Braun, Armageddon, Harry Truman, Air Force, Pope Benedict XVI, Politics News

The woo-woo nuttiness of it all defies the imagination, beginning with the idea of a course in "Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare" at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Nuclear ethics?

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Revealed: Ayn Rand's Script for Hollywood Movie Glorifying the Atomic Bomb

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Bomb, Hollywood, Ayn Rand, Hiroshima, Culture News

Did Ayn Rand hate the Bomb? Hardly. In fact, she extolled its creation as "an eloquent example of, argument for and tribute to free enterprise."

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Press Censorship: Famous War Reporter's Historic Scoop Spiked -- for 60 Years

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Censorship, War Reporter, Media News

One of the great mysteries of the nuclear age was solved just six years ago: What was in the censored, and then lost to the ages, newspaper articles filed by the first reporter to reach Nagasaki following the atomic attack on that city on August 9, 1945.

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Baseball at Ground Zero: Ghosts in the Outfield at Killing Field

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Hiroshima, Baseball, Atomic Bomb, Sports News

To welcome its first pro team, Hiroshima erected the stadium in the early 1950s. The mayor hoped baseball would "revitalize the spirit of Hiroshima," and make citizens forget what had happened. Yet he built the stadium 300 yards from the epicenter of the atomic explosion.

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Nuclear Disaster: Japan to Declare Wide Area Around Fukushima 'Uninhabitable'

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Fukushima, Nuclear War, Hiroshima, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, World News

Of course, the Fukushima disaster forced me to relive my own experiences in visiting the atomic cities, and my research into the American "cover-up" since. I was hardly alone.

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Under a Mound in Hiroshima: A City of Ashes the Size of Santa Fe

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.19.2011

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In the northwestern corner of the Hiroshima Peace Park, amid a quiet grove of trees, the earth suddenly swells. It is not much of a mound -- only abou...

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Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Vonnegut, Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear, Books, Fiction, Books News

If the great Hiroshima novel remains unwritten, a number of major poets have written brilliantly on nuclear concerns, and they have invoked Hiroshima far more often than the novelists.

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Twice Cursed: The Man who Survived the A-Bomb in Hiroshima -- and in Nagasaki

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Obama, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Bomb, Japan, World News

"I felt so dishonored that I had to experience the atomic bomb twice. It's nothing to be boastful about. I could not talk to anyone about it because almost no one else met the bomb twice. So there was no one who could sympathize with me."

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5 Photos That Must Never Be Repeated: He Took the Only Pictures in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Photography, Nuclear War, Photographs, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Hiroshima, World War II, Censorship, Pictures, Japan, Cover-Up, World News

On August 6, 1945, Yoshito Matsushige wandered around Hiroshima for ten hours, carrying one of the few cameras that survived the atomic bombing and two rolls of film with twenty-four possible exposures.

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U.S. Presidents and Hiroshima: Obama's Surprising Move

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Obama, Hiroshima, Nuclear, Antinuclear, Atomic Bomb, Nuclearweapons, Japan, Politics News

Two cheers for Obama for at least marking what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Next step: an honest American reappraisal and real progress on nuclear abolition.

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66 Years Ago: The Crime of Nagasaki -- The 'Forgotten' A-Bomb City

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.09.2011

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No one in America ever wrote a bestselling book called Nagasaki, or made a film titled Nagasaki, Mon Amour. "We are an asterisk," Shinji Takahashi, a sociologist in Nagasaki, once told me, with a bitter smile.

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From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Lessons for Today's Nuclear Crisis

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.08.2011

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The worst nuclear disaster to strike Japan since a single bomb fell over Nagasaki in 1945 occurred in the spring of 2011 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the epic tsunami.

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The Day After: America's 'First-Strike' Policy and Why Hiroshima Matters Today

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.07.2011

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Over and over, top policymakers and commentators say, "We must never use nuclear weapons," yet they endorse the two times the weapons have been used against cities in a first strike. To make any exceptions means exceptions can be made in the future.

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Hiroshima's Lessons: The Air Force, Just War And Nuclear Weapons

Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson | Posted 10.06.2011

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The Air Force presentation cited in the report claims that the Christian "Just War" tradition morally authorizes the use of nuclear weapons. This is categorically untrue.

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66 Years Ago: When Truman Opened the Nuclear Era With a Hiroshima Lie

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2011

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On Aug. 6, 1945, President Truman faced the task of telling the world that America's crusade against fascism had culminated in exploding a revolutionary new weapon of extraordinary destructive power. From its very first words, the official narrative was built on a lie.

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PHOTOS: Hiroshima: The Original Ground Zero

Adam Harrison Levy | Posted 10.05.2011

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What can a suitcase, found in a pile of garbage, tell us about Hiroshima and its legacy? The suitcase was found eleven years ago by a man who was out...

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The Great Concessionaire

Will Durst | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Katrina, Wall Street Crisis, Hiroshima, President Obama, Tea Party, Comedy News

Sorry if you settled into your recliner ready to enjoy the blessed silence destined to descend on the political playing field in the aftermath of the ...

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PHOTOS: Hiroshima Survivors Honor Fukushima Plant Victims During Anniversary Ceremonies

Posted 10.05.2011

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Japan's annual commemorations of the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima were particularly poignant this year, with thoughts quickly turning to t...

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66 Years Ago: The Day the Nuclear Age Began With a Bomb and Prayer

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Nuclear, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Politics News

Sixty-six years ago today, the Nuclear Age began with a tragic bang, with the killing of over 100,000 people in Hiroshima, the vast majority women and children. Decades of a costly nuclear arms race followed.

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Countdown to Hiroshima 66 Years Ago: Was the Bomb Necessary?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.04.2011

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Sixty-six years ago, U..S policymakers and President Truman made decisions that meant the use of two atomic bombs against Japanese cities was almost inevitable. Then film footage and other evidence of the true effects of the bomb were suppressed for decades.

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The Great Hiroshima Cover-up: How the U.S. Hid Shocking Historic Footage for Decades

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Truman, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear, Hiroshima, World War II, Atomic Bomb, Politics News

The color U.S. military footage would remain hidden until the early 1980s, and has never been fully aired. It rests today at the National Archives in College Park, Md., in the form of 90,000 feet of raw footage labeled #342 USAF.

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