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Twenty-five years after Hiroshima, the threat of the bomb is still very real, says Robert Jay Lifton, an expert on Nuclear Age psychology...
Lifton, professor of Psychiatry at Yale, is the author of Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1967), the definitive study of the victims of the first atomic blast...
...twenty-fifth anniversary of Hiroshima's destruction, Lifton has worked with some peace groups to sponsor commemorative activities throughout America...
...lead the crash program that eventually employed 150,000 scientists, engineers, technicians, military men and others. Three years of all-out effort culminated on July 16, 1945, in the first plutonium-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. The following month two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During the debate over nuclear morality that followed, Groves wrote in Now It Can Be Told: "The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. While they brought death and destruction on a horrifying scale, they averted even greater losses-American, English and Japanese...
local anti-war demonstrations on August 6-9, the period from Hiroshima Day to Nagasaki...