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Hiroshima marks bombing’s date

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...
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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 ...

Sobering simulation shows true devastation of Hiroshima atomic bomb 80 years on from tragedy

A Hiroshima atomic bomb simulation shows the extent of the damage done to the city 80 years ago when the Little Boy bomb was ...

‘Apocalyptic’ pictures of Gaza’s devastation echo the destruction of the Hiroshima bomb 80 years on

Palestinians have been represented for the first time at a memorial for the bomb dropped on Japan, amid warnings the world ...

Hiroshima 80: The Decision to Surrender

Eighty years ago, the U.S. used the first atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Key figures from the U.S. and Japan ...

Hiroshima and the End We Refuse to Imagine

Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture ...