Hiroshima Anniversary

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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65 Years Later, a POW's Son Reflects on Hiroshima

Paul Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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The debate over dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima has always been more personal than numerical to me. The devastating attack surely saved my father's life.

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Thoughts on the 65th Anniversary of Hiroshima Day

Lucy Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

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I fear that we might all be like the "walking ghosts" of Hiroshima -- having survived the initial attack, we are alive only by virtue of a ghoulish time lag between the onset of the nuclear period and the full realization of its horrific consequences.

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Hiroshima Survivor Talks About His Experience (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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While diplomats from around the world attended ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing today, many of those who lived ...

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New START, or Starting Over

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether nuclear weapons are to be dramatically reduced to more manageable levels or eliminated altogether, the New START agreement is a crucial building block. It deserves bipartisan support in the Senate.

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PHOTOS: Stunning Never Before Seen Images From Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Posted 05.25.2011

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Today marks the 65th anniversary of America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. And for the first time ever, a U.S. representati...

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Hiroshima and the Transfiguration: A Meditation

Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson | Posted 05.25.2011

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On August 6 we remember a transfiguration and a transformation. Both came with clouds, blazing light, and sound. One brought death in a scope never before seen. But the other revealed a life even greater.

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U.S. Sends Envoy to Hiroshima for First Time -- But Use of Bomb, Then and Now, Still Defended

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hiroshima was our original sin, and we are still paying for it, even if most Americans don't know it. That's why I always urge everyone to study the history surrounding the decision to use the bomb and how the full story was covered up for decades.

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Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and the Need to Readjust Our Historical Lenses

Phillip Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

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But it's time for Americans and the Japanese to start readjusting our historical lenses and to look at historic tragedies from multiple perspectives to mitigate our natural reflexes toward revisionism.

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Obama Asked To Visit Hiroshima Or Nagasaki, Japanese Atomic Bomb Cities

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO — A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hirosh...

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In Hiroshima

Ann Wright | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am in ancient Japanese city of Hiroshima for the annual ceremonies on Aug. 6 to honor the souls of over 140,000 Japanese, South Koreans and Chinese who died 64 years ago due to atomic bombs.

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For 64th Anniversary: The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up -- And the Nuclear Fallout for All of Us Today

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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For decades after the atomic attacks on Japan, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film that documented the bombing and its effects.

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For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War

Frida Berrigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sixty-four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we need more than symbols of peace. Memories of the destruction fade, while the terror of nuclear annihilation seems to have worn off almost completely.

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The Bomb at 64: Let's Retire It

William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011

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Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, have called for nuclear disarmament. But no president in the nuclear age has spoken of it as often as Barack Obama.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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Forgettable Fire: On Not Remembering Hiroshima

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.17.2011

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As a young man, I had the Bomb on my brain. In my dreams, I could feel its searing heat and watch a mushroom cloud rise on the horizon. My dreams were nothing compared to those of America's top strategists.

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