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In Hiroshima on anniversary of atomic bombing there, Cardinal McElroy highlights ‘new moment’ for renewing Catholic teaching on war and peace
In a talk in Hiroshima, Japan, as part of a Pilgrimage of Peace coinciding with the 80 th anniversaries of the United States ...
Descendants of atomic bomb plane crewman and double survivor team up to abolish nuclear weapons
When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was onboard both of the ...
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Nichols: 'The atomic bomb did not win the war; it ended it'
Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...
Here’s how big our nuclear arsenal is 80 years after the first atomic bomb
The first series of thermonuclear tests took place on Nov. 1, 1952, on the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll ...
'If we lose, we'll be tried as war criminals.' America's controversial path to the atomic bomb
At the outset of the Second World War President Franklin D. Roosevelt implored the belligerents to avoid civilian casualties ...
Today in Chicago History: City’s role in development of atomic bomb revealed
Vintage Chicago Tribune: The Atomic Age is born at the University of Chicago’s football stadium “Five thousand scientists, ...
British POW who witnessed Hiroshima atomic bomb was 'dangled in hell and hauled out'
On this day in 1945, the world was changed forever when the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ...
Book Review: ‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky’ weaves thorough account of Atomic Age’s start
An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb” tells the story of the atomic bomb and its consequences.