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Nagasaki
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  • On August 9, Nagasaki, like Hiroshima, disappeared.†   (source)
  • "My father was facing away from Nagasaki," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • Did they leave the relatives in Nagasaki?†   (source)
  • Young Mother at Nagasaki, am I not also there?†   (source)
  • My father," Raven says, grinning proudly, "was nuked twice: once at Nagasaki, when he was blinded, and then again in 1972, when the Americans nuked our homeland."†   (source)
  • The casualty figures from this and other firebombing raids would be higher than those caused by the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.†   (source)
  • "With a simple bomb design and a Nagasaki yield you'd need anywhere from fifteen to fifty kilograms of HEU or six to nine kilograms of plutonium.†   (source)
  • So Nagasaki?†   (source)
  • Charles Sweeney, who later dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, would write that his Catholic mother allowed only two images to be hung on the family's dining-room wall: Jesus and FDR.†   (source)
  • In February, just as American air raids in Tokyo were intensifying, Mother went to help her cousin in Nagasaki.†   (source)
  • "Though it was a time of war," Grandma writes, "what happiness that January 1945 to hear from my niece Setsuko, in Nagasaki."†   (source)
  • In spite of all the dangers of travel, Grandma Kato went to Nagasaki to be with my mother and to help with the care of the new baby.†   (source)
  • I could not know that she and Grandma Kato had gone to Nagasaki to stay with Setsuko, her husband, who was a dentist, and their two children, four-year-old Tomio and the new baby, Chieko.†   (source)
  • Eight days after Hiroshima, four days after Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito, having determined that Japan must "endure the unendurable and suffer the insufferable," ordered the Japanese to cease fighting.†   (source)
  • The night after the Nagasaki bombing she wrote: "I'm still hoping that you'll go to college when the war is over and study journalism; that is, if you're still interested in that kind of work.†   (source)
  • Still later, he heard that the mother was alive and was on Goto Island, off Nagasaki.†   (source)
  • At two minutes after eleven o'clock on the morning of 9 August, the second atomic bomb was dropped, on Nagasaki.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing fever of outrage in the country, the provision of adequate medical care for the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs finally became a political issue.†   (source)
  • It was the late sixties before analyses indeed showed some chromosome aberrations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, and it would, of course, take much longer to tell what, if any, effects there would be on their progeny.†   (source)
  • IN referring to those who went through the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Japanese tended to shy away from the term "survivors," because in its focus on being alive it might suggest some slight to the sacred dead.†   (source)
  • Long before the American public had been told, most of the scientists and lots of nonscientists in Japan knew — from the calculations of Japanese nuclear physicists that a uranium bomb had exploded at Hiroshima and a more powerful one, of plutonium, at Nagasaki.†   (source)
  • Through a press code and other measures, General Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of the occupying forces, had strictly prohibited dissemination of or agitation for any reports on the consequences of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings — including the consequence of a desire for peace — and the officials evidently thought that Tanimoto's peace center might get the local governments in trouble.†   (source)
  • It puts in at Yokohama and Nagasaki, but it starts from Shanghai.†   (source)
  • By going to Nagasaki, at the extreme south of Japan, or even to Shanghai, which is only eight hundred miles from here.†   (source)
  • "Pilot," said Mr. Fogg, "I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki."†   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Busby, and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of five hundred and fifty pounds, ascended the steamer with Aouda and Fix; and they started at once for Nagasaki and Yokohama.†   (source)
  • …icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea, The Japan waters, the beautiful bay of Nagasaki land-lock'd in its mountains, The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White sea, and the sea around Greenland.†   (source)
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