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...attack were inevitable. The strike was heavily criticized by U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan for precisely this reason, and even White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Tuesday that "This heavy-handed action does not contribute to peace." Even in Israel itself, the decision to use a one-ton bomb dropped by an F-16 drew strong criticism, and even Israeli military officials called it an "error." Indeed, despite Sharon's lauding of the raid's "success," the Israeli Defense Force and Shin Bet security service on Wednesday launched an investigation into its failures...
...during Israel's invasion of Hebron two weeks ago, officials arrested a Hizballah operative who was planning a potentially devastating strike within Israel. The officials say the operative, a Lebanese-born Canadian man known as Abu Ahmed, had been scouting locations for large-scale attacks similar to a failed bomb attempt at a gas depot in May that would have demolished a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Abu Ahmed's arrest, combined with news last month that a 35-year-old Israeli with relatives in Lebanon had been working for Hizballah, has given rise to fears that a big terrorist...
History marks Nagasaki as one of only two places to have been devastated by an atom bomb. But four centuries before that epochal event, Nagasaki was known for something much sunnier than a dark mushroom cloud. Over a 200-year period during which Japan quarantined itself from the outside world-no explorers, no traders and above all no missionaries-Nagasaki was the one place foreigners were allowed to live. Dutch and Chinese traders, tolerated because they were not Catholic, called upon the city, leaving behind architecture, food and traditions that have been absorbed into Nagasaki's culture...
NUCLEAR LEGACY On Aug. 9, 1945, the U.S. detonated an atom bomb above Nagasaki. The pilots meant to hit the Mitsubishi shipyards 3.2 kilometers south, but the day was cloudy and they missed their target, dropping the device instead over Nagasaki's northern suburb of Urakami. The bomb killed nearly 75,000 people instantly, and at least as many died afterward from the effects of radiation...
Like Hiroshima, its sister city in nuclear Armageddon, Nagasaki has made the preservation of the event's memory its legacy. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a brick building of contemporary architecture, documents the bombing and its aftermath. Its exhibits focus on the dangers of nuclear weapons and are remarkably balanced, leaving discussions of the war's politics for history books and scholars. Memorable artifacts include: a wall clock, its face busted, stopped at exactly 11:02 a.m.; a melted rosary from the Urakami cathedral; and children's crumpled clothing. Television screens showing footage of the bomb's wasteland are dwarfed...