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The devastating attack on Japan’s capital set a
At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare
The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...
Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the sur vivors’ stories
Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f
M.G. Sheftall
On the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan, Charles Harris looks back at the 14th Army’s extraordinary campaign and the remarkable characters who shaped it
