Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atom bombing of Hiroshima, 71,379 died. In the U.S. fire-and-bomb raid on Tokyo six months earlier, the dead totaled...
This year the memorial services were marked with a new bitterness. The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun editorialized: "We hope these commemorative events will bring home to those concerned with the dropping of the bomb that they were guilty of acts so shameful that Japan will never forget them." Said Mayor Watanabe: "We now view the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, no matter for what purpose, as a crime committed against mankind." And he added: "We have become frightened...
...Fright. What was frightening Japan was the sudden sharp rise in leukemia deaths among supposedly uninjured survivors. In the year preceding last week's anniversary, 65 in Hiroshima and atom-bombed Nagasaki died of "atomic sickness." In the previous twelve months, the total deaths had been 36; in the year before that, 20. Another statistic was just as chilling: of 32,000 children born in Hiroshima in the past 13 years, nearly one in six was deformed or stillborn. U.S. Dr. George B. Darling of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission protests that "the incidence of abnormal births to parents...
...bomb survivors not yet struck down by atom sickness, the worst damage appears psychological. Many of them try to conceal their identities because they often find themselves shunned. Says one Japanese bitterly: "People are afraid of us. They think we are going to fall sick and become a burden, or contaminate them. We know now how lepers feel." In a public-opinion poll, 40% of Japanese questioned said they would not marry a bomb survivor; 80% of those who would said they would refuse to have children. But the most gnawing fear of the survivors was expressed...
...make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene of all: Photographer James Simon found a colony of lemmings (mouselike rodents that breed prolifically) swarming in panic because of famine, filmed them as they scurried by the millions over a cliff into...