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Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war 80 years after atomic bomb attack

The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US atom bomb ...

Nagasaki marks 80th A-bomb anniversary as survivors put hopes of nuclear ban in the hands of youth

Nagasaki has marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city in Japan. Survivors are determined to ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 80 years after the atomic bomb, the world still grapples with the fallout

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, survivors continue searching for remains and healing—and ...
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Israeli envoy attends Nagasaki 80th atom bomb anniversary, a year after Gaza war snub

Memorial for US atomic bombing of Japanese city during WWII attended by representatives from some 100 countries, amid prayers ...

Nagasaki mayor warns of new threat of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since atomic bomb

The western Japanese city was levelled on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, ...
The Japan Times4d

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor calls on young people to inspire movement

The era of hibakusha themselves working to share their experiences and talking about nuclear weapons is coming to an end,' 93 ...
Arab Times6d

Nagasaki marks 80th A-bomb anniversary

Teruko Yokoyama, vice chairperson of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, stands at the door of her office ahead of a ...

Japan imperial family to visit Nagasaki atomic bomb site in Sept.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko will visit Nagasaki next month, the last in a ...
Sky HISTORY UK TV Channel7d

Nagasaki: Remembering 80 years since the second bomb

Join us as Sky HISTORY remembers the 80th anniversary of Nagasaki, the second city struck by a US atomic bomb.
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Bells of Nagasaki’s Urakami Cathedral to Sound Together for 1st Time Since Bomb Dropped in 1945

A nonprofit organization, which promotes the study of Nagasaki culture, will hold an event Saturday to listen to the sound of ...

Why surviving the Nagasaki atomic bomb made these women feel ashamed

Women who survived the Nagasaki bomb tell CNN about its impact. Eighty years after the US bombings of Nagasaki, aging ...
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Nigel Biggar: Dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a moral necessity

For pacifists, the answer is clear: since any deliberate killing is wrong, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 was wrong about two hundred thousand times over ...