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How the Japanese City of Kokura Narrowly Avoided Nagasaki's A-Bomb
“Fat Man” was originally intended for a different Japanese city.
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At interreligious dialogue in Nagasaki, archbishops say ridding world of nuclear weapons is a moral issue
For Archbishop Wester, the issue is close to home. Located within his archdiocese is the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he noted ...
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The Bells of Nagasaki Still Call the World to Pray for Peace
A symphony of lives were impacted by the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, and the witness of Servant of God ...
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Representative to Japan: China Pressure Behind Nagasaki Memorial Seating Snub
Taiwan's representative to Japan says China is behind a snub in which Taiwanese delegates to a Nagasaki atomic bombing ...
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Legacy of Japan’s champion of medicine, faith who persevered after atomic bomb endures
Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...
‘If the Allies Land on Japan’s Shores, Kill the POWs’: The Fight to Survive Nagasaki
An exclusive excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima recounts the tale of one the few western eye-witnesses, a POW, and the guard ...
Why Japan Is Rethinking Its Peace Vow
The country’s postwar Constitution is under scrutiny as Japan rebuilds its military, spooked by a rising China and other ...
Nagasaki 80 years later, world 'more dangerous than Cold War,' says author
Sheftall discusses one of the most horrifying facts about the Nagasaki bombing, how the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites ...