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Reflections from the 70th Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony by Tom Nakanishi

At 8:15 AM on August 6th, the announcer at the 70th Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony asked us to observe a moment of silence. It was precisely then, 70 years earlier, that Little Boy fell from Enola Gay and turned the … Continue reading

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Dr. James Yamazaki and the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings on Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Thursday, August 6th, 2015 marks seventy years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which was followed three days later by a bomb on Nagasaki. Dr. James Yamazaki was a medical researcher with the US Atomic Bomb … Continue reading

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