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...nuclear program, which is wildly popular in Pakistan. I would like to be able to say that I am opposed to the possession of nuclear weapons, by our state or any other. After all, I have seen photographs of the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and read the terrifying stories told by survivors. I am aware of the horrors this technology can bring. And I am aware of the resources consumed in our pursuit of nuclear bombs and missiles, resources that could have gone into much needed schools and hospitals and roads...
Weller was the first Western civilian reporter to enter Nagasaki after it was devastated by a nuclear bomb in August...
...black rain fell. It looked like oil to Seiko Komatsu, then 9. He saw the rain soak his wounded grandparents. He had been having breakfast in their house when the bomb fell and gutted it. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by another atom bomb. Japan announced its unconditional surrender on Aug. 14. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Japan Chucks in Its Clogs It's difficult to imagine how an amusement park built around windmills and giant wooden shoes could fail, but last week Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, became the country's third largest bankruptcy this year, with liabilities of $1.95 billion. With unemployment at record highs, people in the world's second-biggest economy are in no mood to play; indeed, the once-booming leisure industry is also responsible for the country's two largest bankruptcies. The fall of Huis Ten Bosch is most significant because it highlights Japan's banking...
After the war, Weller defied a ban by the U. S. government against visiting the atomic bomb cites in Japan. Weller was the first Western civilian reporter to enter Nagasaki after it was devastated by a nuclear bomb in August...