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Obama at Hiroshima: A Voice of Humanity
On May 27th, President Obama, standing alongside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the first atomic bombing. After the ceremony, Obama gave a seventeen-minute address that started with a brief overview of the conflict-ridden history of…
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Learn to Love the Bomb
Japan in 1945.. The nuclear age begins when America uses the first atom bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing World War II to an end. Nearly a decade of physics research and development pays off. For a brief period, the US appears to reign as the…
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