Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When it comes to voting in elections, these people are not worth a tinker's curse. Most of them really ought to go back to school. Let them go to the Kremlin and tell Mr. Khrushchev to ban his bomb...
Among all the landmarks of history, from Wittenberg or Waterloo to Lexington or West Berlin, none have burned more deeply into 20th century consciences than Hiroshima. With every U.S. or Soviet nuclear explosion, ban-the-Bomb demonstrators the world over chant the name of the first city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Hiroshima is visited by 2,000,000 tourists a year; its chilling museum of atomic horrors has been massively and masochistically documented in endless magazine and newspaper articles, TV features and movies. Seventeen years after the first atomic blast, the world has seemingly forgotten about...
Falling three miles wide of its target, the vast Mitsubishi shipyard complex, the bomb obliterated one-third of the city, including 18,409 houses, two war plants, six hospitals, a prison, two schools, a church, and an asylum for the blind and dumb. Of the city's 210,000 wartime inhabitants, it killed 38,000, wounded 21,000 others. Among the dead were 40% of Nagasaki's Christian population, which for centuries has been the biggest of any Japanese city; its Oura and Urakami Roman Catholic churches, respectively the oldest and biggest in Japan, were also hit (both...
...Western-style boulevards, handsome parks, shining new industrial plants. Yet despite their shared nightmare, in outlook and atmosphere there are hardly two more dissimilar cities in Japan. Hiroshima today is grimly obsessed by that long-ago mushroom cloud; Nagasaki lives resolutely in the present. Though in fact U.S. fire bombs took more lives more painfully in Tokyo than the combined death toll of both A-bombs, Hiroshima has made an industry of its fate-even to naming bars and restaurants after the Bomb. Comparing Hiroshima with other war-devastated cities, a U.S. casualty commission official noted: "This is the only...
...figure that eternally lifts one arm to the sky, extends the other in forgiveness. Unlike Hiroshima, which is only 430 miles from Tokyo, Nagasaki takes about 24 hours to reach by train, and has never been invaded by antinuclear demonstrators. By last week, while Hiroshima staged noisy ban-the-Bomb rallies, Nagasaki had not witnessed a single demonstration against U.S. nuclear tests over Christmas Island. Explains Hiroshi Wakiyama, a businessman who in 1960 quit as chairman of Nagasaki's small chapter of Gensuikyo, Japan's antinuclear council: "We don't want to go around bragging about being...