Nagasaki

Japanese Man Has Spent 20 Years On Remote Island Alone, Naked

Posted 04.17.2012

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Some might say he's gone nuts. A 76-year-old man has decided to spend the latter part of his life in almost complete seclusion on the desert island...

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

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.31.2011

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Greg Mitchell

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

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2011

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Greg Mitchell

"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

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Greg Mitchell

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

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.09.2011

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Greg Mitchell

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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Greg Mitchell

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

Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson | Posted 10.06.2011

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Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

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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Greg Mitchell

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

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.05.2011

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Greg Mitchell

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

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.02.2011

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Greg Mitchell

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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White House Cover-Up: When Harry Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.25.2011

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Greg Mitchell

One of the great tales of Hollywood "censorship" remains little known today, nearly 65 years after it transpired. And who was right at the center of it? None other than President Harry S. Truman. He even got rid of the actor playing him in the MGM movie.

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Day 3: Google Still Suppressing Ads for My Book About...Suppression

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.19.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Google is suppressing ads for a book about... suppression. Three days later, they have not responded to my queries, or the protests of many others.

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Google Suspends Ad for My Book Questioning Atomic Bombings--Claiming It 'Promotes Violence"

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.17.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Perhaps Joseph Heller or some other master of dark comedy would have enjoyed this. I just received email notice from Google that it has suspended an ...

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Wildfire Advances On Famed Nuclear Lab

AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 08.28.2011

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor dr...

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Deadly Silence on Fukushima

Vivian Norris | Posted 07.08.2011

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Vivian Norris

I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushi...

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Japanese Workers and Children Overexposed to Radiation

Alexia Parks | Posted 07.02.2011

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Alexia Parks

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

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Duck and Cover

Robert Koehler | Posted 06.21.2011

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Robert Koehler

What if schoolchildren stood facing not the American flag every morning before class started but a photograph of a devastated Hiroshima? Do you think we'd start growing up as a country?

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What Began in Hiroshima Must End in Fukushima

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.04.2011

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Norman MacAfee

It was a bad idea all around for most of the human race. When Albert Einstein learned of the bombing of Hiroshima and the dawn of the Nuclear Age, he ...

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Are Anti-Nuke Liberals Science Deniers?

David Ropeik | Posted 06.05.2011

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David Ropeik

True liberals, non-wobbly liberals, are supposed to oppose nuclear power. Period. True conservatives, for some reason, are supposed to deny climate change. Period.

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A Rabbi Remembers Japan's First Nuclear Crisis

Posted 05.25.2011

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By A. James Rudin Religion News Service (RNS) Japan was the scene of the devastating opening chapter of the atomic age, and now it may be writing the...

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A Nuclear-Free World Awaits Action by Obama, Senate

Shan Cretin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shan Cretin

The contradiction between rhetoric and action on nuclear weapons policy should trigger a much-needed national debate on how to achieve real security in a changing world.

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New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero

James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011

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James M. Clash

Trinity was the culmination of the Manhattan Project where, during World War II, some of the best scientific minds toiled to perfect a device they called "the gadget." With the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, the gadget broke windows 90 miles away

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The Nuclear [Movie] Renaissance, or: Bad Idea, James Cameron

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rizwan Ladha

I'm noticing what might be a curious trend lately in Hollywood: movies are being made about nuclear weapons again.

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Countdown to Zero Neglects the Greatest Nuclear Danger of All

Tad Daley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tad Daley

The nuclear-armed nations cannot continue to fantasize that starting a nuclear war could ever serve either their own national interests or the interests of the human community.

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ReThink Review: Countdown to Zero -- How I Learned to Start Worrying

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Kim

America's willingness to use nuclear weapons poses one of the globe's biggest threats. As Countdown to Zero illustrates, it's time we take that threat off the table.

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