How To Use Hiroshima In A Sentence
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden, the Blitz, Coventry and Caen, the gas chambers and the gulags – with, more recently Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars in Africa – demonstrate, in particular, our leaders' propensities to hijack science for wholesale murder.
Steven Pinker is wrong – we live in the bloodiest times ever | letters
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Some news accounts warned that its explosive force upon impact would be 350,000 megatons, eight million times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
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I was a crew member of the Enola Gay, the B29 that dropped a bomb on Hiroshima.
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Her tattered clothes look as if the woman herself has come through Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Christianity Today
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Nobody who survived Hiroshima 60 years ago today was closer to the explosion than Mrs Takakura, and she holds a special place in a group of 'hibakusha' - the atomic people -- Rees
OpEdNews - Quicklink: The burning and the haunting: how for some the nightmare of Hiroshima will never end
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The New Yorker today is just as willing to publish a barely illustrated, three-part, 30,000-word jeremiad on climate change as founding editor Harold Ross was happy to devote an entire issue to one article on the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
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One character is in the Resistance, another witnesses Hiroshima, another goes to a concentration camp, others stay at home.
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Still, it can be said that Hiroshima is veverywhere in postwar and contemporary fiction -- in its themes of futurelessness and absurdity, and its predilection for violent orengeful behavior by heroes and anti-heroes alike.
Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age
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Frida Berrigan: For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War
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But ceding it led inexorably to megadeath, including Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Auschwitz and Belsen.
Memories of the Falklands
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The massive three tonne rock was bought to Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called Tunguska event'' - a mysterious mid air explosion over Siberia in 1908 was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers 830 sq mi.
Posthuman Blues
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The two-stage design that resulted, tested on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok on Nov. 1, 1952, yielded a terrifying 10.4 megatons -- a thousand times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
The Atomic Bomb
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Among those observing the Hiroshima anniversary will be hundreds of Quakers in York, during their annual gathering at York University.
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But the obliteration of Nagasaki was, if comparisons on this scale are even possible, even worse than that of Hiroshima.
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With wake-up for tomorrow's bullet train to Hiroshima set for 5: 30, everyone was bushed.
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Destruction has been brought to an area 160 times larger than that hit by the Hiroshima atom bomb.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Hiroshima is neither a deep-sea documentary nor a TV show, so how are those relevant to his dramatic movies? mbellerbrock
Don’t Expect a James Cameron Hiroshima Film Soon, as Publication of the Source Book is Halted | /Film
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The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is a horrific image of war.
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He asks Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, how he feels when people say ‘Let's nuke 'em’.
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According to urban-studies professor Carola Hein, for instance, once Hiroshima "eclipsed" Tokyo as "the archetype of urban trauma in Japan," the significance of the capital's great 1923 earthquake shifted to something less devastating.
How Cities Bounce Back
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Exaggeratedly enlarged images resembling pointilliste paintings mix with the more literal, their beauty disguising the flowers' significance in Japanese history, from badges of honour for Kamikaze pilots to trees growing in contaminated Hiroshima soil.
Evening Standard - Home
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The detonation of an atomic bomb above Hiroshima was the starting gun for modern Japan.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso
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On August sixth, nineteen forty-five, the first atomic bomb fell on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second A-bomb fell on the city of Nagasaki.
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Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, historians have devoted nearly as much energy to debating who made the decision to use the bomb as was released in the atomic explosions.
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I was a crew member of the Enola Gay, the B29 that dropped a bomb on Hiroshima.
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Those whose hearts bleed for the terrorists should watch some of the videos on 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the recent Mumbai carnage (which in perspective is relatively minor), some of the movies about nuclear attacks on urban areas to get a feel for what could happen if we fail to learn what we need to find out to avert disaster.
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They span from the days of the samurai and shogun, to 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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Hiroshima was nearly obliterated by the atomic bomb.
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As with the Transfiguration and Hiroshima, the stories of the Sudan and the massacre of the innocents under Herod are now fused in my mind.
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Hannah Arendt numbered him among the few who confronted the reality of the three great abominations - the Holocaust, the Gulag and Hiroshima.
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On Hiroshima Day 1962 CND met Prime Minister Holyoake to ask him to promote a Southern Hemisphere nuclear-free zone.
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Compared to that, what happened in the Pacific, except for what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is going to seem as remote and routine an example of human folly as the Napoleonic Wars, of interest to historians and hobbyists but of no more importance than any other example of wholesale slaughter you can name.
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The fact of the matter, however, is that once the technology of nuclear weaponry became manifest in the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in 1945, the spying that led to its subsequent spread was as difficult to prevent at Los Alamos and elsewhere as, later, at Almelo.
The Wrath of Khan
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For comparison, the atomic bomb explosions that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki were about 20 kilotons each.
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Neil, in turn, showed rather too much curiosity about the Hiroshima A-bomb, and Mrs Saito felt obliged to reprimand him.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Her tattered clothes look as if the woman herself has come through Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Christianity Today
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden, the Blitz, Coventry and Caen, the gas chambers and the gulags – with, more recently Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars in Africa – demonstrate, in particular, our leaders' propensities to hijack science for wholesale murder.
Steven Pinker is wrong – we live in the bloodiest times ever | letters
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Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, payback is always hell.
Protesting Globalization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is a horrific image of war.
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A 5.1-magnitude earthquake triggered the collapse of the mountain's north flank, unloosing the biggest landslide ever recorded and an eruption equal to 500 Hiroshimas.
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Hiroshima was nearly obliterated by the atomic bomb.
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Lifting up that light, the aging hibakusha are calling for U.S. President George Bush to visit Hiroshima.
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If there are any serious novels exploring the decision to drop the bomb, or the Enola Gay's mission to Hiroshima, no bibliographer has yet uncovered them.
Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age
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Her mom's father was a U.S. Navy officer on a destroyer en route to invade Kyushu; her father's dad was a nisei returned to Japan to avoid a U.S. internment camp, an engineer working in a factory near Hiroshima at the time of the fatal drop.
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Here's a close-up look at the "coverup" -- led by the Truman White House -- of the first "Hiroshima movie," some of it based on material we were first to discover at the Truman Library in Missouri.
Greg Mitchell: White House Cover-Up: How Harry Truman Edited the First Hollywood Film About the Atomic Bomb
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The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb.
Tragedy and Comedy of Life
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The official welcome which the city of Hiroshima extends to visiting pilgrims is well designed to encourage a mood of solemn reflection.
Infinite in All Directions
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The article begins with an artist's rendering of the ‘smoke’ that billowed from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, with text that glossed the final days of the war.
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Destruction has been brought to an area 160 times larger than that hit by the Hiroshima atom bomb.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1908, an asteroid or comet about 60 metres long exploded over Siberia with the force of 600 times the Hiroshima bomb, reducing a 40-km wide patch of forest to matchwood.
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The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is a horrific image of war.
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They are often found in Japanese temple precincts and are so tough that a few specimens survived the Hiroshima blast when all other vegetation was wiped out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oman: We studied the scenario of using 100 Hiroshima-size bombs, the fires from which would inject upward of 5 teragrams (megatons) of black carbon particles into Earth's upper troposphere.
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He lived for a year in Sicily before moving to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England.
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Simply put, precision could undo Hiroshima and unshackle military power.
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The works of Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad) are perhaps the most famously anamnestic in cinema, but Two for the Road had a close precedent, Claude Lelouch’s 1966 A Man and a Woman, in which a couple’s budding romance is interlaced with each lover’s recollections of their late spouses.
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It is this ghostly, lifeless afterworld that Mr. Misrach captured by setting up his view camera along the empty streets of this miniature version of Dresden or Hiroshima a week or so after the fire.
Following the Flames
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso
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The strike against Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 signaled the beginning of the atomic age and a revolution in strategic affairs.
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One character is in the Resistance, another witnesses Hiroshima, another goes to a concentration camp, others stay at home.
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'Hiroshima is neither a deep-sea documentary nor a TV show.'
Don’t Expect a James Cameron Hiroshima Film Soon, as Publication of the Source Book is Halted | /Film
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(He remembers them fondly from a cafe in Hiroshima.)
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Hiroshima -- As a mountain range rises angularly in the background, two Japanese misses, one in modern dress, the other clad in a traditional Japanese kimono, pose beside the Peace Bridge in Hiroshima during a day of remembrance, the ninth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima with atomic bombs.
Archive 2009-01-01
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I don't want to harp, but I still don't see how what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki is any worse than what happened to other cities like Tokyo and Dresden.
Where we won the War we started by almost losing it
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The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima at 8: 15 in the morning of August 6, 1945.
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My mate fatty halliwell has been evacuated on this scheme, lucky sod has been sent to a place called Hiroshima.
Army Rumour Service
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The fear of radiation was prevalent after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and it stigmatized the survivors, known as hibakusha, or people exposed to radiation.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
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Of course, the Japanese people also have had a disastrous experience with nuclear weapons -- not only in 1945, when the U.S. government destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, but in 1954, when a U.S. government H-bomb test showered a Japanese fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon, with deadly radioactive fallout, and a vast nuclear disarmament movement began.
Lawrence Wittner: How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety"
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Enigmatic and difficult on a first pass, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a film that rewards multiple viewings.
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I don't want to harp, but I still don't see how what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki is any worse than what happened to other cities like Tokyo and Dresden.
Where we won the War we started by almost losing it
