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The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan… Stalin Did
Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? By Ward Wilson.
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The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth? By Gar Alperovitz. -
The Bureaucrats Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Destruction
How committee meetings, memos, and largely arbitrary decisions ushered in the nuclear age. By Paul Ham. -
The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb
Just weeks before the US dropped the most powerful weapon mankind has ever known, Nagasaki was not even on a list of target cities for the atomic bomb. In its place was Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto... By Mariko Oi. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 Years After the Atomic Bombs Were Dropped
The world changed irrevocably 70 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the United States dropped the first nuclear weapon in history on the civilian population of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the second and, to date, final atomic weapon used... By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan. -
Atomic amnesia: why Hiroshima narratives remain few and far between
On this day, August 6, seven decades ago, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and – on August 9 – Nagasaki. While early postwar literature registered fear of atomic warfare, there are only few references to the bomb in contemporary culture... By Sofia Ahlberg. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?
Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of the atomic bombings on Japan being "the lesser of the two evils", and recognise the true gravity of this crime against humanity... By Akil Awan. -
How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world
Seventy years after the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, its place in history remains secure. As The Post has written: "It's seared into the collective global memory — no other time in history has a nuclear weapon..." By Herman Wong. -
Bethe, Teller, Trinity and the End of the Earth
The 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has reminded me of an extraordinary incident that occurred during the Manhattan Project, when Edward Teller and other physicists feared the fission bomb they were building might incinerate the planet... By John Horgan.
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