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After the atomic bombings, Japanese doctors wanted to understand and study the actual damage and conduct research to help treat the hibakusha. However, the GHQ did not allow Japanese researchers to study the current state of A-bomb damage. Regulations were particularly strict until 1946, resulting in a higher number of radiation-related deaths ...
A second American Volunteer Group was also formed in late 1941 to attack Japan from bases in China using Hudson and A-20 Havoc medium bombers. The attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 led to open hostilities between the US and Japan and ended the need for covert operations, however, and this unit did not become active. The small number of ...
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
Japan has since become a nuclear-capable state, said to be a "screwdriver's turn" away from nuclear weapons; having the capacity, the know-how, and the materials to make a nuclear bomb. Japan has consistently eschewed any desire to have nuclear weapons, and no mainstream Japanese party has ever advocated acquisition of nuclear weapons or any ...
'Oppenheimer' viewers are divided on whether the film should have shown Japanese victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer.
The bombing campaign has been covered in recent years on film, radio and by historian Ross Coen in his book "Fu-go" but never made major headlines at the time. As Coen notes, only a handful of ...
In September 1944, John T. Flynn, a co-founder of the non-interventionist America First Committee, launched a Pearl Harbor counter-narrative when he published a 46-page booklet entitled The Truth about Pearl Harbor, arguing that Roosevelt and his inner circle had been plotting to provoke the Japanese into an attack on the U.S. and thus provide a reason to enter the war since January 1941.
Hollywood blockbuster "Barbie" hit theatres in Japan on Friday, where "Barbenheimer" memes linking the doll-themed film with the atomic bomb caused a stir and made distributor Warner Bros ...