The A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 people and injured nearly as many. |
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Enigmatic and difficult on a first pass, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a film that rewards multiple viewings. |
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But the obliteration of Nagasaki was, if comparisons on this scale are even possible, even worse than that of Hiroshima. |
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This one bomb was smaller in size than the Hiroshima A-bomb but 2500 times more powerful. |
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As with the Transfiguration and Hiroshima, the stories of the Sudan and the massacre of the innocents under Herod are now fused in my mind. |
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Hiroshima Bank has been boosting its operations overseas by forming business tie-ups. |
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The detonation of an atomic bomb above Hiroshima was the starting gun for modern Japan. |
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They span from the days of the samurai and shogun, to 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. |
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The body count from the war-exacerbated Afghan famine will exceed the Dresden total and may be as high as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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By the time of the bombing of Hiroshima, many of Japan's large cities had been attacked severely by American air power. |
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Lifting up that light, the aging hibakusha are calling for U.S. President George Bush to visit Hiroshima. |
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The FBI noted Einstein's fervent opposition to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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It is also the anniversary of the dropping of the first atom bomb on Hiroshima, to be followed by the bomb for Nagasaki. |
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The blast was 600 times as violent as the Hiroshima atom bomb and shot a nuclear cloud more than 17 miles high into the air. |
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The strike against Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 signaled the beginning of the atomic age and a revolution in strategic affairs. |
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Among those observing the Hiroshima anniversary will be hundreds of Quakers in York, during their annual gathering at York University. |
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On Hiroshima Day 1962 CND met Prime Minister Holyoake to ask him to promote a Southern Hemisphere nuclear-free zone. |
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were New Year's crackers compared to modern H-bombs. |
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Then, many other cities such as Shimane, Hiroshima, and Shizoka also adapted this blue street light. |
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At the age of 21, he was stationed on a ship 20 miles from Christmas Island as an H-bomb 1,000 times bigger than the Hiroshima bomb was detonated. |
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Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, historians have devoted nearly as much energy to debating who made the decision to use the bomb as was released in the atomic explosions. |
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When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, he knew that his era had become a part of the past. |
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I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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The effect of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan attest to this threat. |
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The book is based on the life of Sadako Sasaki, a little girl in Hiroshima sickened by radiation. |
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Pearl Harbor has gone down in history as a day of infamy and in the end resulted in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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At that point, Yuji and his father asked if I would consider attending the annual memorial ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Anyway, if you want a virtual visit, here you go for Nagasaki, and here for Hiroshima! |
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The cities of Europe, especially those of Germany, lay in ashes, not to mention those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Peace: Jacques Chirac, French president, who tested a nuclear bomb the day of the 50th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima. |
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Examples are the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico, the sites of Byblos and Tyre in Lebanon and Hiroshima in Japan. |
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Within two decades of Hiroshima, the five nuclear-weapon states possessed the means to use their nuclear weapons anywhere on the globe. |
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Not so long ago, Neil Young had come up to the tar sands and compared the devastation to Hiroshima. |
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When the bomb detonated above Hiroshima, the Enola Gay's tailgunner was the only crewman who witnessed the explosion, Mr. Jeppson recalled. |
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Riva points out that she first went to Cannes with Hiroshima Mon Amour and Trintignant with And God Created Woman. |
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In the meantime there will be another anniversary: this summer it will be 70 years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. |
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Such policies and practices seem to have learned no lesson from the nightmare of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Simply put, precision could undo Hiroshima and unshackle military power. |
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Are we talking about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Cambodia, or even Korea, where I served in the American Army? |
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In 1908, an asteroid or comet about 60 metres long exploded over Siberia with the force of 600 times the Hiroshima bomb, reducing a 40-km wide patch of forest to matchwood. |
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The war in Bosnia, Hiroshima, the two World Wars, the Great Depression of 1929, and the Bolshevik Revolution have not yet taken place. |
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Some news accounts warned that its explosive force upon impact would be 350,000 megatons, eight million times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. |
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Then later he regretted what he had done when he saw the disaster of Hiroshima and the disaster of Nagasaki. |
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The belief that education is the development of useful skills for the region is a key initiative for Hiroshima Bunka. |
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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bomb that has just been dropped on Hiroshima. |
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Current knowledge of the effects of ionising radiation on human beings is, to a large extent, based on the follow-up of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims. |
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The current weapons develop powers from 8 to 40 times higher than that of Little servant boy and Fat man, the bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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But it would have been appalling if the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't created a taboo around the use of nuclear weapons that endures unviolated to the present day. |
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Bush to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ''confirm with his own eyes what nuclear weapons hold in store for us all. |
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They were assembled from meagre rags of clothing left on three boys, aged twelve to fifteen, who happened to be a thousand yards from the bomb's hypocenter above Hiroshima. |
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The Japanese, for example, defeated in war Tokyo fire-bombed, Hiroshima and Nagasaki triturated with atomic bombs seem far more pro-American than the South Koreans, who owe much of their freedom to American force of arms. |
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Well, there are the almost 100 million dead from two world wars, the devastation of Europe and much of Asia, the savagery at Hiroshima and Nagasaki where essentially a defenseless people were incinerated by atomic weaponry. |
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At the time Fermi demonstrated the first controlled chain reaction, the uncontrolled ones that would devastate Hiroshima and Nagasaki were already being planned. |
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Optimists claim that since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have never been used and they fatally have an effect of responsibility for those who hold them. |
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A tremendous cloud of smoke arose which completely blotted out Hiroshima. |
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The fact of the matter is that ever since Hiroshima and Nagasaki we have known that war is an anachronism for reasons the member herself has elaborated upon. |
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They couldn't know, as they nibbled at their smoked-salmon salads, that their neighbourhood was about to be consumed by a force with the destructive energy of 1,500 Hiroshima bombs. |
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The US dropped one nuclear bomb on Hiroshima killing 80,000 people, with horrible long-term effects for tens of thousands more. |
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The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs had yields of 12-15 kilotons. |
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Now, measured in Becquerel or Sirven, dangerous dozes of a radio-activity are determined by the installed norms of times of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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A flame lit by embers from the first atomic bomb, which exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, smoldered into ashes Tuesday at Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range, the birthplace of atomic weapons. |
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The knowledge that his bomb will always be a partial and imaginative construction — that it can only asymptotically approach the actual bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is, at times, difficult for him to accept. |
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In 1945 the first human-generated radioactive particles following the testing of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan appear in the geologic record. |
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Several hundred survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 came to the exhibit site at Headquarters and many spent time speaking with visitors about their life experiences. |
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Humankind has seen just how dangerous nuclear weapons are from the disastrous and brutal ravages caused by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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It does so by relating doses mathematically to those received by the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from external gamma radiation, the largest dataset in existence on radiation exposure and health. |
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Government scientists, drawing on data from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, used to visit schools to check thyroids and radioactivity levels, recalled Peterson, another advocate. |
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The former is indelibly stitched into French film history thanks to her breakthrough role in Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour way back in 1959, though she has also made films for Georges Franju and Jean-Pierre Melville. |
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Economists are the new nuclear physicists, turned to by governments for advice as though they are heirs to the power of the scientists who created Hiroshima. |
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More than 60 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the long-lasting threat to human survival from nuclear weapons continues to be the greatest threat to humanity. |
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The U. S. is the first and only country in history that ever actually used nuclear weapons in war and against civilian targets such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Every year in Nyon, UNI hosts the Peace Messengers, students from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, who travel the world to spread the message of peace and advocate for a nuclear-weapon-free planet. |
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But Canadians did not fight in the Pacific, as Japan surrendered on August 14th, 1945, after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the first atom bombs. |
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Studies on survivors of the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 indicate that the principal long-term effects of radiation exposure have been an increase in the frequency of cancer and leukemia. |
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As far as military uses are concerned, the initial anxiety provoked by the bombing of Hiroshima was simply wiped out by the effects of the Cold War, which triggered the arms race. |
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In early August, the USAAF dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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One week after the end of the Potsdam Conference, the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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Listening to the A-bomb survivor that day in Hiroshima, Broderick and Roberts, from the Hiroshima Peace Institute, had a light-bulb moment. |
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Fifteen kilotons is about the force of the nuclear bomb that leveled Hiroshima. |
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In 1945, two atom bombs were dropped over Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the USA when the Japanese were nearly done for in the Second World War. |
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Which US president authorised the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? |
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One of the first translated mangas to be published was Barefoot Gen, an autobiographical story by Keiji Nakazawa of the Hiroshima bomb. |
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Plutonium passes through the human body when people are exposed to it from the outside,'' said Nanao Kamada, professor emeritus of radiation biology at Hiroshima University. |
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It was clear that had an atomic bomb exploded in a British port, it would have been a catastrophe worse than the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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But the team from the universities of Oita and Hiroshima found that even relatively low levels appeared to have a positive impact of suicide rates. |
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The US dropped one nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing 80,000 people, with horrible long-term effects for tens of thousands more. |
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Two hydrogen bombs, with a combined power of more than 500 times then device which hit Hiroshima, are accidentally dropped over North Carolina when a B-52 breaks up in midair. |
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Hiroshima city authorities said Monday they plan to invite ambassadors of seven nuclear powers to a memorial peace event in August showcasing the city's antinuke policy. |
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His first major commission was the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. |
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Post World War II, terrorism against the people acquired a new dimension when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and later carpet bombed Vietnam with Napalm. |
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