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Pilots take off on friendship flight to commemorate 80th anniversary of atomic bombings of Japan
As they fly wing-to-wing over a vital spot in the development of the atomic bomb, a native of Japan and a former U.S.
Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons
The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...
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.