Nagasaki
Nagasaki Day / “A peep into hell”
Having dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Brigadier-General Paul Warfield Tibbets Junior—pilot of the first plane (Enola Gay) to drop the atomic bomb—said to have blinked from the flash behind his goggles. When he opened his eyes to look down, what he saw, he described as “a peep into hell.”
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki / “An ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages”
Even after long seventy years of the most catastrophic event of the last century, the jury is still out on whether the bombings of the two Japanese cities were justified, morally or strategically.
Disney sorry for 'inappropriate' tweet on Nagasaki anniversary
US entertainment giant Disney is forced to apologise after one of its Japanese language tweets has been criticised for being insensitive as the country commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb
Just weeks before the US dropped the most powerful weapon mankind has ever known, Nagasaki was not even on a list of target cities for the atomic bomb.
Japan remembers Nagasaki atomic bomb, 70 years on
The Japanese city of Nagasaki is marking 70 years since the dropping of an atomic bomb by the United States.
Hiroshima marks 70 years since atomic bomb
Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft.
“A peep into hell”
Having dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Brigadier-General Paul Warfield Tibbets Junior—pilot of the first plane (Enola Gay) to drop the atomic bomb—said to have blinked from the flash behind his goggles. When he opened his eyes to look down, what he saw, he described as “a peep into hell.”
“An ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages”
Even after long seventy years of the most catastrophic event of the last century, the jury is still out on whether the bombings of the two Japanese cities were justified, morally or strategically.
Disney sorry for 'inappropriate' tweet on Nagasaki anniversary
US entertainment giant Disney is forced to apologise after one of its Japanese language tweets has been criticised for being insensitive as the country commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb
Just weeks before the US dropped the most powerful weapon mankind has ever known, Nagasaki was not even on a list of target cities for the atomic bomb.
Japan remembers Nagasaki atomic bomb, 70 years on
The Japanese city of Nagasaki is marking 70 years since the dropping of an atomic bomb by the United States.
Hiroshima marks 70 years since atomic bomb
Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft.