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Disinfo & the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs

In 1945, Truman’s decision to drop two atomic bombs was grim—but it ended a war that could have cost millions more lives on ...
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Nichols: 'The atomic bomb did not win the war; it ended it'

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

On This Day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

On August 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days ...

80 years after Nagasaki, Hiroshima: Ohio's connections to atomic bombs that ended WWII

Ohio has more than one connection to the final days of World War II. Here’s what to know about the Bockscar bomber and the ...

The Case for the Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later

Revisiting the math and morality of the Allied forces’ decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

Opinion: I survived an atomic bomb. It’s time to end the nuclear threat.

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two ...
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Stopping an Atomic Bomb: The Secret Mission to Stop Germany from Winning WW2

How close was Germany to developing an atomic bomb in World War 2? Learn the story of the secret commando raid to destroy ...

How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors

As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who ...

Descendants of atomic bomb plane crewman and double survivor team up to abolish nuclear weapons

When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was onboard both of the ...
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The dropping of the atomic bombs: Oak Ridger shares excerpt of her book 'Robertsville'

The excerpt features Myra Mansfield's father, 10-year-old Stan Finch, a paper boy in Oak Ridge, on Au. 6, 1945 - when t he first bomb dropped.
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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...