Word: hiroshima
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...amounts into building a small nuclear device. Taylor says that if such a regime could get its hands on enough plutonium, it would require only a few thousand dollars to build a device with a yield of ten kilotons, three kilotons less than that of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, that could fit into a medium-size car. "I'd give them a pretty good chance, say, one in three, of building one that would work the first time," he says...
...Hersey, 70, is back home on Martha's Vineyard after wintering in Key West. But his attention is already turning westward, across Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, over the American landmass, toward the Pacific and beyond. The New Yorker once again has asked him to visit and write about Hiroshima, 40 years after the city was destroyed by a single bomb and 39 years after Hersey marked the first anniversary of atomic warfare with the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II. Hiroshima filled the magazine's entire August 31, 1946, issue. Published in hardcover...
...packed city on February 13-14, 1945, creating a firestorm that could be seen for 200 miles. Though the numbers of deaths have been disputed, the figure quoted by historian David Irving, author of "The Destruction of Dresden," is 135,000--64,400 more than the death toll at Hiroshima a few months later...
...missionary nation, one whose ideology has been to show the world the way to the ideal society, a society defined by America. Along with missionary ideology. Baritz describes an American confidence based on technology. Our belief, fortified by technique, makes us strong, but our machines make us invincible. "As Hiroshima demonstrated conclusively, we could think of ourselves not only as morally superior, but as the most powerful nation in history." Americans did not conceive that it was possible for this country to lose a war against anyone, certainly not poor, ignorant peasants...
After 18 years pitching for Hanshin, Nankai, Hiroshima, Nippon and Seibu in the Japanese League, the 36-year-old Enatsu is trying to hurl his way onto the Milwaukee Brewers this spring...