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Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the a
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
The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...
At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare
M.G. Sheftall
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
The devastating attack on Japan’s capital set a terrible new precedent for aerial mass destruction
