A-bombing

By Flickr user kamoda. touhen 03, from Hiroshima, tells us the story of the building (pictured above) now become the symbol of the A-bombing and of his memories related to it.

Global Voices in English » Japan: We will not forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2009

It was the era of "Japan as Number One" mania and there was so much to see in a few brief days -- and I, of course, knew pretty much what there was to be known about the experience of the first A-bombing.

Tom Engelhardt: Forgettable Fire: On Not Remembering Hiroshima 2009

Of course, it's an old trick to pick a year -- say, 1945, with the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or 1970, with the shooting of antiwar students at Kent State -- as the cusp of a new era or the end of an old one.

When the World Tilted--Again 2009

He was exposed to the A-bombing on August 6 in Nakajima Shinmachi (currently Peace Memorial Park), approximately 500 meters from the hypocenter.

AUGUST 6, 1945 / A DAY OF INFAMY 2008

When it comes to human right issues, the U.S.serves as a perfect role model - to protect human rights of some, A-bombing Japan twice and invading Irap twice too.

The Beleaguered Torch, Now With Nazi Origins - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The United States might then have retaliated by A-bombing Vladivostok.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

Whenever I hear the apologists expressing guilt and shame for A-bombing and ending the war Japan had started they ignore the cause-effect relation between Pearl Harbor and Nagasaki, I have noted that neither the effete critics nor the puff-adder politicians are among us in the assault landing-craft or the stinking rice paddies of their suggested alternative, "conventional" warfare.

The Ahmadinejad Gambit 2007

Concerned US scientists proposed, for example, the A-bombing of an uninhabited Japanese forest, where Marshal Hata and his scientists could have learned the same appalling lessons they read in vaporized buildings and irradiated flesh in Hiroshima — if the US government had been willing to take a few more days and to be a bit more thoughtful in opening the age of nuclear warfare.

Was the Hiroshima Bomb Necessary? An Exchange Alsop, Joseph W. 1980

If watchful waiting by the US government for a few more days might have shown that the A-bombing of a single city would suffice, might not such a government have tried a non-lethal demonstration and discovered that that was enough?

Was the Hiroshima Bomb Necessary? An Exchange Alsop, Joseph W. 1980

Nearly 60 years after making the 1952 film "Genbaku no Ko" (Children of the Atomic Bomb) on the A-bombing of Hiroshima, which was the first independent piece produced by his own film production company, the Hiroshima native is now making a film about World War II and the lead-up to the bombing in what he calls his "last piece of work."

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