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HIROSHIMA 81: The looming risk of nuclear disaster
Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki, the horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored, says Peter Kuznick.
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Before the next nuclear crisis, listen to those who lived through the last one
The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in the deaths and fatal injuries of more than 210,000 people, who either died instantaneously or within months.
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Atomic bombing of Japan was not necessary to end WWII. U.S. gov’t documents admit it
U.S. government documents admit the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union.
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings were needless, said World War II’s top U.S. military leaders
Mythology about these mass civilian slaughters warps thinking about U.S. militarism.