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| | Amazon.com: Hiroshima: Books: John Hersey |
 | | Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Gaynor Sekimori | | | Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion and, in 1946, Hiroshima was published, giving the world first-hand accounts from people who had survived it. | | | There are excerpts in the book that try to put a positive political spin on the events that occurred after the blast, however that political spin does not balance against the awesome pain and destruction Hersey's eye-witness account describes. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553205986?v=glance
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| | Publication of Hiroshima in The New Yorker |
| | "Hiroshima" was not presented as a call to action; it was instead offered as a clear-eyed report about the reality of the atom bomb as seen through the eyes of the survivors. | | | Although he had interviewed many people in Hiroshima, he decided to focus exclusively on the six "because they had been good interview subjects, and not for any more dramatic reasons such as their closeness to ground zero... | | | "Hiroshima" was written in a dry, calm manner that struck some readers as emotionless but permitted the survivors' stories to speak for themselves. |
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http://www.herseyhiroshima.com/hiro.php
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| | The details are being investigated." Nor is it probable that any of the survivors happened to be tuned in on a short-wave rebroadcast of an extraordinary announcement by the president of the United States, which identified the new bomb as atomic: "That bomb had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT. | | | It has been estimated that over the years around 200,000 people have died as a result of this bomb being dropped. | | | It is believed that a new type of bomb was used. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWhiroshima.htm
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| | Radiation Effects |
| | The cohort includes another group of 27,000 people whose family registry was in one of the cities and who lived in Hiroshima or Nagasaki at the time of the national census but were not exposed to the atomic bomb. | | | To make monitoring easier in long-term follow-up of mortality and cancer incidence due to radiation exposure, approximately 90,000 people who were resident in Hiroshima or Nagasaki at the time of the national census on October 1, 1950 were selected from about 280,000 survivors who were directly exposed in Hiroshima City or Nagasaki City. | | | However, this latter group is not usually included in analyses because of data suggesting that there are socioeconomic differences from the survivor population. |
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http://www.hiroshima-is.ac.jp/Hiroshima/radiation.htm
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| | Cyber Fair Home Page |
| | Hiroshima, having experienced a preview of that extinction, was transformed. | | | Michiko Yamaoka (center front) an A-bomb survivor who told the Middle School students of her experiences as a result of the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima (see Survivors). | | | Our project is divided into the following sections: Historical Sites; Atomic Bomb facts and figures;Poems For Two Voices; Radiation Effects; 1000 Crane Club; Survivor Stories; Hiroshima Internet Links; and a Bibliography. |
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http://www.hiroshima-is.ac.jp/Hiroshima
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| | HIROSHIMA CALLING |
| | Meanwhile in Japan a recent survey reported that nearly one in ten Japanese under 50 believe the United States was Japan's ally. | | | However, in matters concerning W.W.II ignorances abound; according to a recent Gallop poll 35% of Americans are unaware the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and 22% know nothing about any atomic bomb attack. | | | We must put the interests of our planet before those of a nation. |
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http://neo.pharm.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hiroshima/back-no/paul/paul.html
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| | Hiroshima: Quotes |
| | Cousins writes of his conversations with MacArthur, "MacArthur's views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed." He continues, "When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. | | | "Even without the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed highly unlikely, given what we found to have been the mood of the Japanese government, that a U.S. invasion of the islands [scheduled for November 1, 1945] would have been necessary." | | | What, I asked, would his advice have been? |
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http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htm
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| | CNN - Rare film documents devastation at Hiroshima - Aug. 10, 1996 |
| | Lest anyone doubt the destruction caused by the bomb dropped on Hiroshima 51 years ago, the film provides proof of one of the darkest days in world history. | | | "This documented footage is very meaningful," said Minoru Ohmuta of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. | | | HIROSHIMA, Japan (CNN) -- Rare footage of the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima has now been made available to the world -- three years after it was discovered by accident in a Tokyo film vault. |
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9608/10/japan.hiroshima.film
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| | CNN.com - Doves, silence for A-bomb victims - Aug 6, 2005 |
| | HIROSHIMA, Japan (CNN) -- Hundreds of doves were released in Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima Saturday as tens of thousands of people gathered 60 years after the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city, killing nearly half of its residents. | | | One of the Hiroshima survivors is Hiroko Yamashita, who was home alone when the bomb went off. | | | The attack on Hiroshima: Its goal and aftermath (1:42) |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/05/japan.hiroshima
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| | Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima |
| | I lived through the catastrophes and saw it only in flashes, which only gradually were merged to give me a total picture. | | | Near us there are two barracks, in each of which forty Korean workers lived. | | | Corley's photographs of Hiroshima, some of which were taken while the city still smoldered. |
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http://www.wtj.com/archives/hiroshima.htm
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| | Blast Effects |
| | Hamburg and Hiroshima were examples of such a firestorm, at human-scale dimensions. | | | Testimonies of survivors at Hiroshima appear after photos with static overpressure. | | | At Hiroshima many responsible investigators report up to 90,000 to 120,000 deaths. |
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http://www.nukefix.org/weapon.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Hiroshima: DVD |
| | The US had a genuine belief they were doing right by dropping the first bomb on Hiroshima, in an attempt to end the war, knowing the Japanese would stop at nothing, resulting in a loss of life far in advance of anything they believed both bombs would cause. | | | You are left with the shocking fact that because of the resulting radiation, the aftermath is still very real today some 60 years on, and did it really cut the loss of life after all? | | | With the co-production is mind it was interesting to compare a pure BBC version of this story (Day's That Shook the World - Hiroshima) with this one: the former was sharper and more subtle. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009WT5AA
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| | Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hiroshima was founded by Mori Motonari as his capital. | | | Hiroshima was founded in 1589, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and became a major urban center during the Meiji period. | | | The city government continues to advocate the abolition of nuclear weapons, and has advocated more broadly for world peace. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima
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| | HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR- by Justin Raimondo |
| | In any case, it is not as if the inhabitants of those unfortunate cities had any say in determining the military policies of their leaders. | | | This, we are told, is "nonsense." All those deaths, and possibly more, were justified by "military necessity": to hear them tell it, without the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, World War II might well be going on to this day. | | | War would end if the dead could return. |
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| | The following is an extract from the first Allied reporter allowed into Hiroshima : Peter Burchett who wrote for the "Daily Mail" : | | | Radiation claimed many more lives after the bomb was dropped | | | on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are seen as near enough the end of World War Two |
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hiroshima.htm
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| | Hiroshima (city) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hiroshima (city) |
| | Although it seemed likely that he was not aware that Hiroshima was a city, according to the official Bombing Survey Report ‘Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets because of their concentration of activities and population’. | | | This building is all that remains of central Hiroshima after the atomic bomb that was dropped on it on 6 August 1945. | | | In a national radio broadcast on 9 August 1945, US president Truman called Hiroshima ‘a military base’, chosen in ‘this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians’. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Hiroshima+(city)
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| | Hiroshima on Encyclopedia.com |
| | war two warii far east asia asia hiroshima honshu japan continent continent | | | Kimura Getty Images 08-06-2004 HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - AUGUST 6: A survivor of | | | Hiroshima was the target (Aug. 6, 1945) of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area; almost 130,000 people were killed, injured, or missing, and 90% of the city was leveled. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/H/Hiroshim.asp
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| | Why the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima ? |
| | Hiroshima was a charred plain as far as the survivors eyes could see. | | | Why the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima ? | | | Hiroshima had a high concentration of troops, military facilities and military factories that had not yet been subject to significant damage. |
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| | Hiroshima Archive |
| | Hiroshima Directory offers Internet resources as well as a selected bibliography of printed books, articles, and other research materials regarding the bombing of Hiroshima. | | | Inspired by the photographic work "Hiroshima" by Japanese artist Hiromi Tsuchida, The Hiroshima Archive was originally set up to join the on-line effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing. | | | The archive is intended to serve as a research and educational guide to those who want to gain and expand their knowledge of the atomic bombing. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA
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| | "Hiroshima" by John Hersey |
| | The article was based on interviews with atomic bomb survivors and tells their experiences the morning of the blast and for the next few days and weeks. | | | An article called "Hiroshima" written by John Hersey was published in The New Yorker magazine in August 1946, a year after World War II ended. | | | Another American journalist, George Weller, visited Nagasaki in September 1945, just a few weeks after the second atomic bomb had been dropped there. |
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http://www.herseyhiroshima.com
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| | The Avalon Project : The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| | Nagasaki had never been subjected to large scale bombing prior to the explosion of the atomic bomb there. | | | The alert had been given and radio broadcasting stopped in many cities, among them Hiroshima. | | | The bomb exploded over Hiroshima at 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945. |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mp07.htm
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| | CBC News: Canadians remember horror of atomic blast |
| | Montreal and other Canadian cities are holding memorials on the weekend, six decades after the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima and killed 140,000 people. | | | Pierre Bourque, a former mayor of Montreal, said it's important for the twin cities to continue their special relationship. | | | Crucial evidence may be lost in Mexican resort murder: coroner |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/05/hiroshima-canada-050805.html
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| | It is not improbable that they [the German Jesuits] may have furnished key information on Japan’s war-making activities back to the Vatican [for years] and ultimately to US involving Hiroshima and other cities where a critical part of Japan’s industry was located in this timeframe. | | | Either way it is a plausibility argument for the existence of a Creator who left his “calling card” at Hiroshima. | | | The German families (and most of the German designers) did not know the real agenda of their Governments at the time. |
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http://holysouls.com/sar/rosarymiracle.htm
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| | Hiroshima Videos |
| | This video clip shows views in various directions away from ground zero at Hiroshima. | | | Documents on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | | | This film is of historic interest and does not necessarily represent the policy or plans of the creating agency. |
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http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/hiroshim/hirovid1.html
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| | Devotion of Hiroshima to the Cause of Peace |
| | To prevent repetition of such tragedy, the city has sought ever since to covey the facts of the bombing to the world. | | | Hiroshima was reconstructed in accordance with the law and the plan, which even today serve as the basis for town planning. | | | The city of Hiroshima issues a formal letter of protest against all such tests, including subcritical nuclear tests. |
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http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/shimin/heiwa/peaceenglish.html
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| | TIME Magazine: Hiroshima Archive Collection |
| | When you're looking at it, you know that a tremendous amount of energy has been released. | | | Sixty years after Hiroshima, 14 years after the Soviet Union imploded, the great question facing strategists--facing all of us--is less how a nation might array its nuclear forces and more how to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons from spinning out of control. | | | The birth was announced one day this week by the President of the United States. |
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http://www.time.com/time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_hiroshima,00.shtml
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| | The Official Homepage of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum |
| | The destruction of Hiroshima City immediately after the bombing and the suffering of the people | | | Exhibits on Hiroshima City and Japan before the atomic bombing and world events are | | | The number of days since the last nuclear test on Peace Watch was reset to zero to enhance the strength of the protest from Hiroshima. |
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http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/top_e.html
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| | Surviving the Atomic Attack on Hiroshima, 1945 |
| | Hear Col. Paul Tibbets describe dropping the Bomb in Voices of the Twentieth Century | | | The estimated population of Hiroshima in 1945 was 350,000. | | | A second Atomic Bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki three days later. |
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http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hiroshima.htm
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| | The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Legacy |
| | Aerial View of Hiroshima Mushroom Cloud (62 K) | | | Ground Level View of Hiroshima Mushroom Cloud (123 K) | | | Ground Level View of Hiroshima Mushroom Cloud (111 K) |
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http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Japan/Hirosh.html
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| | Hiroshima: Was It Necessary? The Atomic Bombing of Japan |
| | The Leo Szilard page (The Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings). | | | Chronology on the Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki (by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation). | | | For an expanded bibliography on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and related subjects, click Bibliography. |
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| | Hiroshima |
| | Hiroshima (hiro 'broad' shima 'island') City is home to about 1 million people. | | | The people of Hiroshima did not know what hit them. | | | Most people who come to Hiroshima visit this structure. |
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http://www.yutaka-machi.com/hiroshima.htm
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| | Hiroshima, Pacific War |
| | About this page: Hiroshima - War history of the City. | | | Much of the history of Hiroshima is condensed from, and all quoted passages are from, "Hiroshima Peace Reader" by Yoshiteru Kosakai, chief editor of the Hiroshima City Historical Collection and director of the Hiroshima City Archives Library, published by Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation in 1980. | | | Only one uranium bomb was created, it was started before plutonium had been discovered and harnessed. |
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http://www.ww2pacific.com/hiroshima.html
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| | HIROSHIMA HOTELS & TRAVEL GUIDE |
| | Hiroshima is famous for what happened there in World War II with the Hiroshima Bombing, but today Hiroshima is a modern city. | | | The history and background to Hiroshima including pre and post war history. | | | Hiroshima does not have a major international airport, but there are many other options to get there including the Shinkansen. |
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http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/travel/hiroshima.htm
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| | CBC News Indepth: Hiroshima Anniversary |
| | Today, Hiroshima is an industrial city with a population of 1.1 million people. | | | There are approximately 85,000 Hiroshima survivors still living in the city. | | | It and the attack on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killed 200,000 and 70,000 people respectively. |
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| | Hiroshima is a name known around the world as the Japanese city destroyed by the world's first atomic bomb. | | | Most of the other city buildings were destroyed, along with an estimated 78,150 people who perished that day. | | | As an American I was interested how the museum would portray the Japanese's own role in World War II, especially their invasions of other Asian nations and the bombing of Pearl Harbor that ultimately led to the US's decision to enter World War II. |
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http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Japan_Visit/Peace_Park.html
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| | A-Bomb WWW Museum ~ June,1995 |
| | They are not only the project members and the students, but also those people who participated in the interviews, who provided us with information and photographs, who allowed us to take pictures, who provided us with text, and who supported the project. | | | We also would like to thank the Software Engineers Association, Hiroshima and Chugoku Shikoku Internet Council that co-sponsored the project, and the city government of Hiroshima which supported the project. | | | Until this year, the only way to join this celebration was to go to Hiroshima personally, but now a group of volunteers have started a website that will allow people from around the world to join in. |
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| | hiroshima-worksheet |
| | Hiroshima was to experience the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. | | | This is a detailed site on Hiroshima and the work done after the war to repair the damage caused by the atomic bomb. | | | Now study the accounts of two people who survived Hiroshima. |
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| | The World: Hiroshima's Survivors: The Last Generation |
| | About a thousand survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb live in the United States. | | | A four-part series, "Hiroshima's Survivors: The Last Generation," introduces listeners to some of the over 250,000 "hibakusha," or A-bomb survivors still living. | | | The World's Patrick Cox continues the series with the voices of Koreans who were living in Hiroshima in 1945. |
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http://www.theworld.org/worldfeature/hiroshima/index.shtml
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Hiroshima remembers atomic bomb |
| | Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said that, after the bomb, the city had relentlessly pursued peace. | | | There is continuing controversy over whether the bomb constituted a war crime, but many commentators believe the US attack helped bring an early end to World War II in the Pacific. | | | Fumie Yoshida, who survived the Hiroshima blast aged 16 but lost her father, brother and sister, said she had paid her respects privately. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4748027.stm
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| | NPR : NPR Replay: Remembering Hiroshima |
| | Greene says his conversations with Tibbets gave him a better understanding of his own father. | | | Sixty years after atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the aftershock can still be felt, through sounds and images and the stories of survivors. | | | Madeleine Brand talks with Mark Straus, editor of the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which published the responses of historians, physicists and diplomats who were asked if they would or would not have used atomic weapons to end the war with Japan. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4785484
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| | Photography Gallery "Hiroshima" |
| | We are proud to present his "Hiroshima" work in a complete set. | | | Part of a large body of this work is presented in this archive with the artist's permission. | | | This is a record of articles from the collection at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/gallery.html
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| | Hiroshima Links |
| | Co-sponsored by the Hiroshima Software Engineers Association and the Chugoku-Shikoku Internet Council; also supported by the city government of Hiroshima. | | | The City of Hiroshima - Home page of the city of Hiroshima, Japan. | | | All of these web sites are in Hiroshima, Japan. |
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http://www.dannen.com/hiroshima_links.html
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| | Hiroshima bombing disaster - EFN's speech introduction |
| | I address my most heartfelt emotions to the survivors and the members of the families of the victims of this horrible event (several of which were assisting to the lecture). | | | Our association (EFN) is dedicated to prevent such events and to contribute to better information of the public on matters regarding energy, health, and the environment, and we are also, of course, totally opposed to any military applications of nuclear energy (nuclear war). | | | Hiroshima is a very unique and highly symbolic place in the history of humanity. |
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http://www.ecolo.org/conferences/some_conferences/speech_hiroshima_2002/hiroshima_speech_introduct.htm
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| | JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan |
| | Hiroshima continued to develop into a major industrial center and by the beginning of World War II, its population was nearly 350,000. | | | A municipal system of government was implemented in 1889 during the Meiji period, and Emperor Meiji established his headquarters at Hiroshima Castle during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). | | | Hiroshima is best known as the first city to be atomic bombed. |
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| | ENOLA GAY |
| | I ordered atomic bombs dropped on the two cities named on the way back from Potsdam, when we were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. | | | The people began their daily work and thought that the danger had passed. | | | I asked Secretary Stimson which sites in Japan were devoted to war production. |
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| | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| | The Hiroshima bomb was made from highly-enriched uranium-235. | | | These brought the long Second World War to a sudden end. | | | This happened at positions a few kilometres to the east of Nagasaki, and in areas to the west and north-west of Hiroshima. |
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| | CLIA - Cruise Line International Association |
| | The people of Hiroshima are not quick to forget the destruction and casualties that befell their city as a result of the bombing. | | | Nearly all of the locations that were so terribly damaged now appear to have been undisturbed. | | | Peace Memorial Park is the most popular tourist site in Hiroshima, as it commemorates both the destruction caused by the atomic bombing of 1945 and the triumph of spirit of Hiroshima's people that followed. |
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http://www.cruising.org/planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=203
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| | OpinionJournal - Featured Article |
| | Today--or August 6 in Japan--is the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed outright an estimated 80,000 Japanese and hastened World War II to its conclusion on August 15. | | | Not least, and despite the terrible irony, the bombings were salvation for Japan, since they prompted Emperor Hirohito to intervene with his bitterly divided government to end the war, thus laying the groundwork for America's beneficent occupation and the country's subsequent prosperity. | | | The collective toll from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings is estimated at between 110,000 and 200,000. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007066
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