Word: nagasaki
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...there were some poor civilian victims of the bombing at Sakiet, how do they compare with the thousands killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Year story contained this passage: "What the world would best remember in 1945 was the deadly mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here were the force, the threat, the promise of the future. In their giant shadows, 45,000 ft. tall, all men were pygmies." The cover showed a small face of Harry Truman, a man caught and dwarfed by the might of the new Atomic...
...Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. In the last year of the war, while serving simultaneously as Deputy Chief of Air Staff and chief of staff of the Twentieth Air Force, he helped to set up the B-29 raids on Japan, including the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...mind leaped ahead to the possibilities of a thermonuclear bomb repeating on earth the fusion that makes the stars glow. But at war's end he found most of his fellow scientists unwilling to work toward the "super." The deadly success of their A-bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had rocked the consciences of the atomic scientists. "The physicists have known sin," said Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos' wartime director, and most of his colleagues agreed with...
...that the United States was unable to bring Japan to her knees and called upon Russia for help, whereupon the Red Army promptly brought about a surrender by crushing the Japanese Kuantung Army of a million men in Mongolia. The first American Atomic bombs which fell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dismissed as insignificant while compared with the Soviet strength. The communists were as thorough as possible with this one-sided distortion of the facts, too thorough to be believable...