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...against Japan on Aug. 8 and the second nuclear attack on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 did Emperor Hirohito, in an exceedingly rare display of direct political command, overrule some of his own military leaders, who advocated an apocalyptic fight to the finish. Citing the unprecedented destructive power of the atom bombs, he declared, "I swallow my own tears and give my sanction to the proposal to accept the Allied proclamation"--which called for Japan's unconditional surrender...
...have not done what they are capable of doing. There have been some 525 nuclear explosions aboveground since Hiroshima; not one of them has been an act of war. We find it hard to celebrate that--we may think, as George Orwell wrote two months after Hiroshima, that the atom bomb ushered into being an indefinite "peace that is no peace"--but we should, perhaps, be thankful for small mercies. Since Aug. 6, 1945, we have lived uneasily with the Bomb, and uneasy with it we should always be. But we have lived. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/New Delhi, Michael Brunton...
...Eyewitnesses of Hiroshima • Living Under the Cloud The atom bombs dropped over Japan ended a terrible war and persuaded the world never to use nuclear weapons again. Why that legacy is now in peril-and what we should do about...
...Eyewitnesses of Hiroshima • Living Under the Cloud The atom bombs dropped over Japan ended a terrible war and persuaded the world never to use nuclear weapons again. Why that legacy is now in peril-and what we should do about...
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