Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many of them have mixed feelings about the A-bomb," I said. "They probably want to see for themselves what its use is like...
...that they have the atom bomb, a lot of Americans talk boldly about what they will do to the Russians. But the Americans didn't approve when Germany fought the same battle. This, too, you can answer, but it takes more time...
...second A-bomb used in war, much less publicized but far more powerful than the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, fell on Nagasaki (pop. 250,000). Last week, 3½ years after the city's fiery ordeal, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles paid it a visit. His report...
Nagasaki is surprisingly full of smiles and surprisingly empty of hate. The A-bomb epicenter is a small park of less than an acre around a low, earthen mound topped by a plain wooden shaft. Seven young arborvitae trees circle the mound. A sign in English and Japanese states that 18,409 homes were destroyed, 29,739 people killed and 91,081 injured when a compact mass of plutonium "exploded in the air just above here...
...front yard of one of many rows of neat new grey tile-roofed houses near the epicenter, I saw a young man doing his own laundry. He was Shinji Hamaguchi, 23, a former medical student and now a drugstore clerk. The A-bomb killed his parents and nine other relatives. "I still long to be a doctor," he said, "but it is financially impossible. If my family were living it would be different...