On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare.
Document s on the decision to use the atomic bomb are reproduced here in full-text form. In most cases, the originals are in the U.S.
01/21/07
BOMBING
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01/21/07
THE TRUTH
This is a scholarly, urgently important article about the inner workings of the oil industry, present & past governments in the U.S. & abroad, & the secret manipulations of markets that are always touted as 'free' by the very thieves
01/18/07
WHEN THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE
At the end of WWII American citizens expressed the contradictory emotions of excitement and dread: excitment for the end of the war, and dread for having had to open up the nuclear age to do so. Recent scholarship also shows this mix of emotion in the sci
Commemoration Ceremony of the Destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas
10 March 2006. Commemoration ceremony of the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban in March 2001.
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