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  2. Nagasaki survivor accepts Nobel Peace Prize and calls for ...

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    A survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki nuclear blast has accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of a ... there still remain 12,000 nuclear warheads on Earth today, 4,000 of ... The Today Show.

  3. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Hibakusha - Wikipedia

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    The word hibakusha is Japanese, originally written in kanji.While the term hibakusha 被爆者 (hi 被 ' particle indicating passive mood of the subsequent verb ' + baku 爆 ' to bomb ' + sha 者 ' person ') has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the ...

  5. Radiation monitoring in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Some of them serve as part of a national monitoring network for use in a nuclear emergency. Others are independent monitoring stations maintained by individuals. Interest in the levels of radiation all over the nation increased dramatically during the Fukushima I nuclear accidents. At that time, a number of people began streaming from ...

  6. Nagasaki marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing with ... - AOL

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    Nagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city Wednesday with the mayor urging world powers to abolish nuclear weapons, saying nuclear deterrence also increases risks ...

  7. I survived Nagasaki bombing – Putin has no idea of the ...

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    The radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki City, as seen from 9.6km away in Koyagi-jima (Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum/Getty) “I was lying down reading a book and then suddenly there ...

  8. Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    In the 12 months prior to the nuclear attack, Nagasaki had experienced five small-scale air attacks by an aggregate of 136 U.S. planes which dropped a total of 270 tons of high explosives, 53 tons of incendiaries, and 20 tons of fragmentation bombs. Of these, a raid of August 1, 1945, was the most effective, with a few of the bombs hitting the ...

  9. Bockscar - Wikipedia

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    The mission included three B-29 bombers and their crews: Bockscar, The Great Artiste and The Big Stink. Bockscar was flown on 9 August 1945 by Crew C-15, which usually manned The Great Artiste; piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney, commander of the 393d Bombardment Squadron; and co-piloted by First Lieutenant Charles Donald Albury, C-15's aircraft commander. [7]