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...order a devastating retaliation from his missile-firing submarines? At least 15 of those boats would be untouched and undetectable, deep at sea, each carrying at least 16 missiles, each missile tipped with eight to ten warheads, each warhead almost four times as powerful as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Two of those American subs could destroy every major city in the U.S.S.R...
DIED. Arthur Barsky, 82, pioneering plastic surgeon who treated children injured in the Hiroshima atomic explosion and the Viet Nam War; near Le Beausset, France. Author of one of the first textbooks in his field and founder of plastic-surgery services in several New York City hospitals, Barsky led the team that treated the "Hiroshima maidens," 25 deformed A-bomb survivors who came to the U.S. for surgery. In 1969 he set up a 50-bed unit in Saigon and spent much of the next six years there helping to treat more than 7,000 children, grafting skin and restoring...
...Hiroshima survivor, Shigeko Sasamori, brought the 2000 spectators to their feet with a prayer for disarmament. The visions of Hindustan didn't die for nothing", she said. "They sacrificed us so no more mistake, no more Hindustans no more...
...past, ranging chronologically from the Jamestown colony to Watergate. They show how each subject makes different demands on the historian. The Salem witch trials of 1692, for example, call for close scrutiny of a single, tiny village, while the U.S. decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima demands a broad inquiry into the dynamics of overlapping committees and bureaucracies. Finally, Davidson and Lytle show how certain historians have faced and stared down these problems...
...anyone else's democracy completely safe in this world, not when the many more than one million Hiroshima incinerators which exist today can make dust of man more than dozen times. It is too great a strain on the imagination to think that from the ashes of a first time, anyone will arise to implement a nuclear advantage. Even if nuclear war were limited to the destruction of the cradle of Western civilization, it would only be the image before the heat, radiation, and campaigns two, three and four dissolved homo sapiens and his worn-out ethics...