One of its reactors produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
They applied it to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which ended World War II.
As Nagasaki shows, the Japanese have learned to exact summary justice at the ballot-box.
But have you ever seen these pictures juxtaposed next to pictures from Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
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Thus, the author's question: was the subsequent atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki really necessary?
Many western visitors to Japan sought its art indiscriminately, buying furiously at Nagasaki bazaars.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were effective political moves that helped Hirohito depose his military elite and surrender unconditionally.
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When they become obsessed with the Nagasaki A-bomb, which killed their grandfather, everything turns preachy and disingenuous.
Their confinement was rigorous: the Dutch were isolated on the tiny, fan-shaped island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbour.
The United States had burned Tokyo to the ground and then dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And I have come to stand in solidarity with the citizens of Nagasaki.
On return the lucre would pay for goods destined for Lisbon and silks for the next voyage to Nagasaki.
The assassin belonged to the local Nagasaki branch of Japan's largest crime syndicate.
Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, and Japan surrendered unconditionally six days after that.
He was in a village near Bombay by the time the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and Japan surrendered.
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The plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th 1945, three days after a uranium bomb had destroyed Hiroshima.
They were then marched for 30 days to Nagasaki, a distance of nearly 500 miles, in the coldest part of winter.
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Japan agreed to surrender on August 15, 1945, after U.S. planes dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"You feel as if everyone in Japan feels ashamed of you, " former Olympic swimmer Hiroko Nagasaki commented on a Fuji TV broadcast.
The ceremony was also attended by a grandson of former US President Harry Truman, who ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
B-24 Liberator in the vicinity of Nagasaki the day the second bomb fell, I have more than an academic interest in the subject.
The site produced plutonium for the bomb dropped on the Japanese city Nagasaki and continued producing plutonium for the US nuclear arsenal for years.
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Both claim to be able to build not only fission bombs like those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also more fearsome hydrogen bombs.
It hastened the end of World War II, which concluded within a week after the dropping of a plutonium-based bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
The U.S. atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 each generated explosions of more than 15 kilotons of TNT.
The atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed all that.
The day after my visit, a major typhoon was set to hit Nagasaki (tours are suspended in bad weather), likely to damage the structures even more.
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Mr Frank does a masterly job of documenting the impact that American bombing, prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had on Japan's industrial capacity and civilian morale.
Considering that he was comparing the tragedy to the dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, his statement is heavy in meaning.
His office this day was crowded with the uncensored (and as yet unsold) dispatches of George Weller, a reporter who sneaked into Nagasaki after the atomic bomb dropped.
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