Word: hiroshima
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...nature raises some of the most difficult moral questions that men must face. Obviously, these dilemmas have grown infinitely graver as technology has equipped the allegedly civilized nations with the hardware for inflicting catastrophic destruction. Was Hiroshima necessary in order to save the lives that would have been lost in an invasion of Japan? Did the firebombings of Dresden hasten the end of the war in Europe...
...seconds, and sheer technological novelty. The latter is tied to a two-year-long fuse, but Brown insists that Mazda, which has been building rotary engines for five years, will stay ahead of Detroit. His chiefs at Toyo Kogyo apparently agree. They have increased production at their Hiroshima plant from a monthly average of 13,000 earlier this year to 20,000 at present...
...remain fine citizens, good husbands and fathers, upright and moral men. They retained their integrity by limiting their range of experience. The same phenomenon occurred in World War II. The Nazis gassed and started the Jews and the Slavs (among others); the Allies bombed the civilians of Dresden and Hiroshima (among others). Nobody felt any guilt The criminals never saw their victims...
...another, obviously contrived phraseology provides a bit of harsh irony that says everything the FTA people might have wanted to say, but didn't. A few of the performers tour the museum at Hiroshima, looking at the photographs of the devastation to the people and the city as a taped American voice guides them. The voice has a removed, almost boastful tone of facts-and-figures, like the voice that accompanies one in the elevator to the top of the Washington Monument. Director Francine Parker chose to rush through the tour, eager to get back to the stage, but that...
...International Development. It was conceived in 1967 by Thomas Miller, now 34, a lawyer and Peace Corps veteran who had read about young casualties and decided to do something to help them. Miller enlisted Dr. Arthur Barsky, 73, the Manhattan plastic surgeon who had operated on women disfigured at Hiroshima, and the two visited Viet Nam later that year. The result of their trip was the creation of CMRI and an agreement from AID to help finance what is now called the Barsky Unit on the grounds of the Cho Ray Hospital. Its dual purpose: to treat and rehabilitate Vietnamese...