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...Avalon Project: Hiroshima and Nagasaki A comprehensive site on the number of casualties, the aftermath and types of long-term injuries suffered from atomic bombs. Be sure to check out the Manhattan Project Investigating Group - these Americans were sent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki one month after the bomb to report on the devastation...
...Russia's Baltic Fleet, sinking 21 ships in two days and ending the bloody Russo-Japanese War. The Battle of Tsushima exploded the idea of European military superiority and established Japan as an Asian world power for the next four decades, until the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?just 200 km south of Tsushima?put an end to the Japanese Empire...
...science series The Ring of Truth, Morrison helped assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust-red scar, and no green or gray," he said--he became a lifelong champion of nonproliferation...
Nine years after Trinity, and then the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer was stripped of his government security clearance after an inquiry into his past association with communists. As an effort to prove that he had been a party member, much less one involved in espionage, the inquest was a failure. Its real purpose was larger, however: to punish the most prominent American critic of the U.S. move from atomic weapons to the much more lethal hydrogen bomb...
...American casualties in the Pacific fighting that began with Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, felt the domestic memorials were misplaced. Others, including President Reagan, emphasized that peace and the elimination of weapons were not necessarily synonymous. "We must never forget what nuclear weapons brought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said Reagan, "yet we must remain mindful that our maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent has for four decades ensured the security of the U.S. and the freedom of our allies in Asia and Europe." For most, however, it was simply a time to consider events that all fervently hope...