US EditionEighty Years Ago, with the Dropping of Two Atom Bombs on Japan, We Entered the Age of Dread
JAPAN, AUG 6 – The bombings killed between 150,000 and 250,000 people and marked the start of the nuclear age, with over 12,000 warheads now globally, experts say.
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Our fabulous Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives us her usual transcendent poem.Singaporean native HEDY TRIPP talks of her father suffering through Japan’s Gulag & her decades of powerful No Nukes work ever since.Noted film reviewer ED RAMPELL tells us of the powerful documentary “Atomic People” and its devastating impact on our view of the nuclear Bombings.Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN questions the military calculations behind dropping those Bombs at …
August 1945 marked a turning point in human history. The dropping of American atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only brought about the end of World War II, but also changed global politics and military affairs forever. Take our quiz to see how much you know about this dramatic chapter in history.
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan brought a horrific end to World War II. Eight decades later, the heavy shadow of nuclear war still hangs over the world.
Eighty Years Ago Today – We Sure Know How To Kill Each Other, Don’t We
“Oh you masters of war. You that build the big bombs.” – a lyric from the song Masters of War by Bob Dylan A Brief Comment from Doug draper at Niagara At Large Posted August 6th, 2025 The fiery mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th, 1945 It was eighty years ago today that the first nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. A few days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Together, thes…
According to official figures, the tragedy killed nearly 140,000 people by the end of 1945, and the number of victims has more than doubled since then. This year, the names of 350,000 people have already been placed on the monument honoring the victims.
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