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US Military Class Suggested 'Hiroshima' Answer to Islam

Rob Quinn — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:47:15 CDT

A course for American military officers took a position on Islam so extreme that it sounds like the invention of al-Qaeda propagandists. Future military leaders were taught that to protect America, "total war" on all the world's Muslims may be necessary, and holy cities like Mecca may have to be...

Nagasaki Marks 65th Anniversary

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:50:20 CDT

Bells tolled today as Nagasaki marked 65 years since the last time a nuclear weapon was dropped on a civilian population, reports the BBC, an attack that killed 70,000, leveled an entire city, and ultimately ended the last world war within a week. Though the US ambassador to Japan...

Japan Should Apologize for Hiroshima

Kevin Spak — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:03:42 CDT

Japan will commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing today, and for the first time, the US ambassador to Japan will be present. The son of the man who dropped the first atomic bomb called that gesture “an unsaid apology” from the Obama administration. But it’s not the US...

US Joins Hiroshima Memorial Event for First Time

Rob Quinn — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:26:39 CDT

Hiroshima marked the 65th anniversary of its atomic bombing today with an official representative from the US in attendance for the first time. Ambassador John Roos said he hoped this year's event would boost world efforts towards nuclear disarmament, the AP reports. Fellow nuclear powers Britain and France also sent...

Publisher Drops 'Fake' Hiroshima History

Rob Quinn — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:27:00 CST

The publisher of Last Train to Hiroshima has stopped shipping the book after it emerged that at least one of the author's sources had invented his story. Joseph Fuoco, who died in 2008, claimed to have been a last-minute replacement on board the Enola Gay on its bombing mission but...

Fashion's Issey Miyake Haunted by Hiroshima

Jason Farago — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:08:49 CDT

Issey Miyake’s clothes are famous for color and exuberance, but the Japanese designer has a tragic past: He survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Miyake has declined to talk about the blast, “preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed,” he writes in the New York...

Japanese Man, 93, Survived Both A-Bombs

Matt Cantor — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:18:38 CDT

At 93, a Japanese man has become the first certified survivor of both atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the AP reports. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business Aug. 6, 1945, when the US bombed the city; after a night there, he returned home to Nagasaki, bombed Aug. 9....

Korean Hiroshima Survivors Want $$$—from Japan

Kevin Spak — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:29:22 CST

Hapcheon residents think they live in the unluckiest town in earth. When Japan occupied the tiny South Korean farming community during World War II, it sent locals to work in munitions factories—in Hiroshima. Thousands of Hapcheon residents died instantly when the bomb dropped. The rest were shunned when they...

Crashed Subs Carried '1200 Hiroshimas'

Rob Quinn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:15:00 CST

British lawmakers are demanding to know how the flagships of the British and French nuclear submarine fleets—each carrying missiles with enough power for 1,250 Hiroshima bombings—managed to collide earlier this month, the Independent reports. Defense sources say the crash was just incredibly bad luck, but experts are...