Word: nagasaki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was last week. Outside the southern Katanga town of Kolwezi, unruly "gendarmes" in the service of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe had wired demolition charges to two huge Union Minière power dams and threatened to push the plunger...
Less than three years after the chain reaction in Chicago, the U.S. had built atomic bombs and dropped one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki. The years since then have witnessed, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, a vast buildup of nuclear weapons-more than enough, it is often pointed out, to be theoretically capable of destroying every human being on earth. And the continuing deadlock of U.S. and Russian negotiators in the test-ban talks at Geneva indicates that men cannot expect in the foreseeable future a trustworthy nuclear disarmament agreement between East and West...
...fact. Nagasakians point out with relish, few Westerners had ever heard of Hiroshima before 1945, whereas their city has been known to missionaries, traders and sailors since 1549, when Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier landed near by for a two-year stay in Japan. For 2½ centuries, Nagasaki was Japan's only gateway to the Western world. Long before 1853, when U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay and ended Japan's era of seclusion, European traders had introduced Nagasaki's citizens to Western literature, science and business methods...
...survivors who were within 1.86 miles of the center of the blasts in both cities carry green health cards assuring them of free medical attention for any ailment whatever. Nonetheless, after 15 years of meticulously sifting case histories, a 1,000-man, U.S.Japanese casualty commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has found no evidence that either city has a higher rate of deformed births, leukemia or other radiation-linked diseases than any other community in Japan...
...Nagasaki's citizens seem to be less fearful of "atom sickness" than their fellow survivors in Hiroshima. They are also markedly gayer and more relaxed. The city's longtime mayor, Tsutomu Tagawa, whose home was destroyed by the Bomb, says his people feel "no bitterness" toward the U.S., shrugs: "If Japan had had the same type of weapon, it would have used it." Today the main difference between the two cities is that Hiroshima has remained a stark symbol of man's inhumanity to man; Nagasaki is a monument to forgiveness...