Hiroshima: the last witnesses

Eighty years after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, the resurrection of one of its cities remains remarkable

Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dead. As the 80th anniversary of the attacks approaches, Stephen Walker, one of the last writers to interview them, revisits what they told him

Since 1940 Japan had been devoid of civilian politicians as the parties had been dissolved by the militaristic Imperial Rule Assistance Association, led by Lt General Hideki Tojo. Over the intervening

The story of four women who worked in wartime American intelligence

“He came, he bombed, he ended the war.” ...

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