Topic: Hiroshima
Hiroshima's governor visited Washington Thursday as part of a new global peace initiative which calls for worldwide nuclear disarmament and efforts to promote conflict resolution."Hiroshima has been known as a place of tragedy but it is also a place of hope," Hiroshima ...
The 79-year-old Yevdokia Matushkina struggles to remember. Her memories often fail her.Except one.Sitting in her tiny room at a home for the elderly in the eastern Kazakh city of Semey, Matushkina remembers the days when the loud blasts of nuclear tests several ...
A ceremony on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing was dominated by national soul-searching on atomic power as Japan's prime minister pledged a nuclear-free future.Marking the 66th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing at an annual event usually ...
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed on Saturday to challenge the "myth of safety" of nuclear power while marking the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a city that has now started questioning its long embrace of ...
Katsuhiro Hirano is among hundreds of thousands of descendants from the "hibakusha" or survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed more than 200,000 people instantly or in the radioactive aftermath."Everyone who is second generation 'hibakusha' has the same ...
Most people traveling to Hiroshima have the nuclear strike on this Japanese city during second world war at the back of their mind. The city that was devastated by the "little boy", the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on August ...
To look at the nuclear threat you must focus on two forms of potential disaster - nuclear power generation and nuclear weaponry. nuclear power, was first developed prior to World War II, with the first sucessful experiment of this technology being conducted ...
Enola Gay," (named after the pilot's mother, who probably would rather forgo this dubious honor) unloaded its cargo, code name "Little Boy," on the southwestern Japanese city of Hiroshima (pop. It is known that people who were within about 1,500 feet of ...
5113 Number of operational warheads in the U.S. nuclear stockpile, according to the Pentagon. The amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 700 milligrams, less than one-third the mass of a U.S. dime.. 6.3 ...
asks Emmanuelle Riva, who plays the estranged actress in Alain Resnais' grave look at human relationships. Now, fourteen years later, she is in Hiroshima, Japan, an actress in a film about peace after the A-bomb. But her question is perhaps a personal ...
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In this Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 photo, young tourists snap the A-Bomb ...AP News - -
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People flock around the Atomic-bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, Saturday, Nov. 13 ...AP News - -
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