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Five-city tour included stopsin Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima. According to Maori legend, the South Island was formed from an upturned canoe. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Ahoy, matey! Tips to beat the post-cruise blues Aug 28, 2007
Five-city tour included stopsin Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima. Be realistic about your schedule. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Walk along St. Augustine's Freedom Trail Aug 28, 2007
Five-city tour included stopsin Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima. At a Klan meeting in September 1963, the Rev. Connie Lynch, a traveling racist evangelist, urged violence against Hayling, according to the book "Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan.". (MSNBC -- Travel)
Deal of the Day Aug 28, 2007
Sightseeing package with stops in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, Osaka ... Then you'll return to Kyoto to board a Japan Rail super express train to Hiroshima ... You'll get a chance to explore Hiroshima and Miyajima by bus and ferry and to scope out the Itsukushima Shrine and the Peace Memorial Park and Museum. (MSNBC -- Travel)
The View From Here Aug 23, 2007
Even though that was "my war," it seems Hollywood has explored every bit of the war - from Pearl Harbor to the battles in the South Pacific to the D-Day invasion of the Normandy beaches in France to the Battle of the Bulge to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - several times over. And by this time I get the feeling that, if all the World War II films were shown end to end, they would run longer than the war itself did. (Pictorial Gazette, CT)
We must not withdraw as we did from Vietnam Aug 23, 2007
" The analogy that "Pete" attempts to draw is not historically parallel. America's decision to drop nuclear weapons on Japan was reached as an alternative to invasion -- not as a aftermath to invasion. Additionally, at the time that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in 1945, the United States held the world's monopoly on nuclear weapons (albeit possessing very few). Today, more countries have access to such weapons, and their use by one nation could result in a far more destabilzing effect than... (Times Online)
The looming crisis with Iran Aug 19, 2007
The use of tactical nuclear weapons to ensure the destruction of the Natanz facility was also being considered, which would be a first since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since that report in April 2006, a number of things have changed. (Rutland Herald)
* World News Quick Take Aug 7, 2007
AUSTRIA Nuclear arms ban urged Chancellor Alfred Gusen-bauer called on Sunday for the world's nations to rid themselves of nuclear weapons, speaking on the eve of the 62nd anniversary of the bombing that devastated Hiroshima. In a statement, Gusenbauer said total global disarmament was the only way to respond to the threat posed by nuclear proliferation. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
An American spreads Hiroshima's peace message Aug 6, 2007
An American spreads Hiroshima's peace message - International Herald Tribune. An American spreads Hiroshima's peace message ... TOKYO: Sixty-two years later, the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima still holds such a grip on Japan that its defense minister has had to resign for suggesting the attack was "unavoidable.". (International Herald Tribune)
* FEATURE: Legacy of Hiroshima still powerful Aug 6, 2007
FEATURE: Legacy of Hiroshima still powerful ... Sixty-two years later, the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima still holds such a grip on Japan that its defense minister has had to resign simply for suggesting the attack was "unavoidable." ... Now, in a sign of changing times, the task of spreading Hiroshima's message to the world has been entrusted to an American, a citizen of the country that dropped the bomb on Aug. 6, 1945. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
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HISTORICAL PHOTOThe atomic bomb's mushroom cloud rises over Hiroshima. Hiroshima survivors remember ... Hiroshima survivors' tale a painfully seared memory. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq... Aug 4, 2007
Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, all over Vietnam (Mi Li), not to mention the near complete genocide of every Native American tribe. America wins wars and winners aren't held accountable for the crimes they commit. (The Drudge Report)
In brief ...Entertainment News Aug 3, 2007
A theme of poignant human survival from mourning to reconnection in the post Hiroshima scene speaks to the frailty in war experiences and the resilience for hope and love, the release said. Based on exchanges between a daughter and her father who returns from beyond to help restore his daughter to normalcy, the play is, at times, comical, and at others, compelling and gripping in their message to us today, the release continued. (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
Genpatsu-shinsai: the language of disaster that is stalking Japan Jul 21, 2007
Japan s turbulent history of war and natural catastrophe has already given the world a terrifying vocabulary of death: tsunami, kamikaze, Hiroshima ... I think Japan today is much like it was before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. (Times Online)
Experts Agree: Major Terror Threats Loom Jul 16, 2007
" Paul L. Williams Journalist, author and former terrorism consultant to the FBI. Author of "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse and Dunces of Doomsday: 10 Blunders That Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes and the Threat of an American Hiroshima. " Prediction "When our troops were combing caves in Kandahar during Operation Enduring Freedom, in those caves they found canisters left behind with Uranium 238. (Newsmax)
Taliban commander warns terror coming... Jul 14, 2007
The Blotter: Exclusive: Terror Commander: New Attack Will Dwarf Failed Bomb Plot. TOP BLOTTER CATEGORIES. (The Drudge Report)
Letters: OSU’s nuke plant not the threat described Jul 13, 2007
Barefoot wrote on Jul 10, 2007 9:46 PM:" Only 31 deaths at Chernobyl? You don't do your argument much good, really, you must be the only person on the planet that thinks the deaths were limited to a couple dozens.//Look at the deaths that followed the nuke bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most deaths not from the blast themselves./ I wouldn't have thought of them until you mentioned Mahattan Project./ A few days ago, after the Nevin letter, I wasn't to concerned. After reading your letter...... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Ship sunk in worst naval loss is enshrined Jul 9, 2007
The 600-foot-long USS Indianapolis was attacked just days after delivering to a Pacific island the uranium-235 and other components of the atomic bomb that was later dropped on Hiroshima. The ship's mission was so secret she sailed alone, unescorted by ships better equipped to detect and fight Japanese submarines. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
CAM: Being there Jul 5, 2007
I have all these different locations I want to go to Asia, and I want to actually film in places like Hiroshima and Nagasaki and just historical places that have been impacted by the United States ... Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that s 60, 70 years ago, it s old history, but that s part of what this is all about too, and bringing that all into the present I don t know how I would do that until I get there. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Mohammed Asha: Doctor as Suspect Jul 4, 2007 Defence chief apologises for atom bomb remark Jul 2, 2007 And The Nominees Are... Jun 19, 2007 FLY-IN MARKS 50 YEARS OF FIREFIGHTING Jun 16, 2007 Shiites Rising: Islam's minority reaches new prominence Jun 6, 2007 Pico Iyer: Travel writer opens eyes to 'globalism' Jun 5, 2007 Midway: Vital in WWII, Now for the Birds Jun 4, 2007 Wooten: Global warming alarmism Jun 1, 2007 A WWII TREASURE RETURNED TO FAMILY May 25, 2007 'The Atomic Bazaar': Terrorism and the nuclear arms race May 16, 2007 Surf, sand and sushi May 6, 2007 Coercion seen in brothels for Occupation Apr 27, 2007 70 years later, Guernica holds secrets Apr 23, 2007 So it goes! Beloved writer Kurt Vonnegut, 84, heads off into mother night Apr 13, 2007 America, Iraq, and the question of total war Apr 12, 2007 Russia and Poland in bitter row over Auschwitz's victims Apr 10, 2007 Japan's way of judicial killing Apr 8, 2007 DR Congo 'uranium ring' men freed Mar 24, 2007 Marcellus challenges war as it enters fifth year Mar 20, 2007 Wooten on Dems & Iraq Mar 16, 2007 The tycoon who fell to earth Mar 16, 2007 Trident debateMalcolm Rifkind vs Bruce Kent Mar 11, 2007 Land of the rising shun Feb 22, 2007 Vet honored decades laterVet honored decades later Feb 16, 2007 Mazda Reports Jump in Quarterly Profit Feb 8, 2007 Voyaging canoes nearing Johnston Feb 5, 2007 Tokyo: A capital in bloom Jan 31, 2007 Sweet sound of success Jan 28, 2007 Ex-Russian Spy Poisoned With Cup Of Tea... Jan 27, 2007 Boxer to Rice: Have Children! Jan 19, 2007 Doomsday Clock moved two minutes closer to midnight Jan 18, 2007 'It's only five minutes to Armageddon' Jan 18, 2007 Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock' Jan 18, 2007 Mates share jitters before their fateful jump Jan 9, 2007
What stopped the Russians, Kyuma argued, was the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "I understand that the bombings brought the war to its end," said Kyuma. (Time.com)
Japanese minister resigns over A-bomb gaffe Jul 4, 2007
Fumio Kyuma s sudden resignation yesterday has done little to calm the outrage felt in Nagasaki, the city he represents, and Hiroshima, because of his apparent lack of remorse ... Mr Kyuma concluded that the attacks had brought the Second World War to an early end and that the bombings, which killed more than 210,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were shou ga nai, or something that we just have to accept ... This enemy surrendered within a few weeks of the dropping of the atomic bombs on... (Times Online)
Mr Kyuma had noted that some historians said that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing about 210,000 people, had been unnecessary to make Japan surrender. But the US must have thought the atomic bombs could prompt Japan s surrender, thus preventing the Soviet Union from declaring war against Japan. (Times Online)
From Hiroshima to the present day, Langewiesche describes a reality of urgent consequence to us all. This searing, provocative, and timely report is a triumph of investigative journalism, and a masterful laying out of the most critical political problem the world now faces. (WNBC.com, NY)
This TBM, stationed on the USS Wasp flown by Navy pilot Harry Baderow, sunk two Japanese cruisers at Kuri Harbor on July 26, 1945 shortly before the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings ended the war. The dive bomber later helped ferry Red Cross supplies into Japan and flew over the USS Missouri as surrender papers were signed. (The Union Democrat)
Iran standing up tothe US and the West has "exploded a bomb in world politics that is a hundred times more powerful than the [atomic] bomb ... exploded in Hiroshima.". Today the Monitor begins a two-part special report on the Shiite ascension - in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon - and its future. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Just before the new millennium, David Mitchell wrote Ghostwritten, and I realize that someone had done this -- an Englishman based in Hiroshima, no less -- and that now at last the world I recognized on the ground was on the page, too ... I spent much of the past two years flying around watching U2 play everywhere from Copenhagen and New Jersey to Tokyo, while also seeing how the Dalai Lama takes his simple, practical, often trans-Buddhist ideas of compassion and responsibility, everywhere from... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
The island-hopping led the U.S. to Iwo Jima and Okinawa before Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. "Midway made it possible for us to take the offense. Before that it had been all defense," Goldstein said. (Newsmax)
So Van, is it your argument that since things did eventually grow around Hiroshima again that no harm was done. Would you feel the same if YOUR farmland where nuked and rendered sterile and toxic for one or two generations. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
As a young soldier, Frank Dresslar flew over Hiroshima in his cargo plane, saw the atom bomb devastation first hand and was horrified ... "My father, who thought his flight over Hiroshima's smoking ruins would be the war experience that would most vividly affect him through his life, now has this positive experience to think about," she said. (The Union Democrat)
Neither the bombing of Hiroshima nor the bombing of Nagasaki meant the end of humanity. But those bombings could have triggered such an end. (Christian Science Monitor)
The easiest way to get to Shikoku Island is by boat from major cities such as Kobe and Hiroshima which can take anything up to two-and-a-half hours. Ishigaki Island. (Guardian Unlimited)
Toshiyuki Tanaka, a history professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, cautioned that Kaburagi's number is hard to document. But he added the RAA was also only part of the picture -- the number of private brothels outside of the official system was likely even higher. (The Japan Times)
Soon a world that had never known urban savagery from the air would witness the horror falling on London, Warsaw, Berlin, Hiroshima. Yet Guernica, whatever its final death toll, retains the power to shock, and its survivors say they hope their ordeal can still serve to warn the world away from war. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
" Her death was the first in a series of bizarre and brutal turns in Vonnegut's life that would color his later writing. In late 1944, Vonnegut was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge and wound up in a prisoner work group in Dresden, a city so treasured for its baroque beauty that no one thought it would be targeted. If he remained there, Vonnegut thought, he would be safe until the war ended. But on Feb. 13, 1945, Dresden was hit by successive waves of British and American... (Sun-Sentinel.com)
A few months later, US planes dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Page 1. (Christian Science Monitor)
Russia and Poland in bitter row over nationality of Auschwitz's victims. Shadow of Hitler-Stalin pact across exhibition Anger at Estonia's plan to raze Red Army memorial. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
The fourth man hanged on Christmas Day morning, 44-year-old Hiroaki Hidaka, was a serial killer who had lured four women, including a 16-year-old high-school student, into the taxi he drove in Hiroshima before raping, robbing and murdering them in 1996. He rejected his lawyer's appeals for a stay of execution, saying he wanted to die. (News on Japan, Japan)
A mine in DR Congo's southern province of Katanga supplied the uranium that was used in the atomic bombs that were dropped by the Americans on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Americans then funded the creation of DR Congo's nuclear centre in 1958. (Yahoo News -- DR Congo)
She told the story of a Japanese girl, 2 years old when an atomic bomb leveled Hiroshima. The girl lived four miles from the blast's epicenter. (Dowagiac News, MI)
Common sense conservativism. The entry titled ""The language of war. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Horie was dispatched to rural Hiroshima prefecture to take on Shizuka Kamei, one of the most formidable politicians in postwar Japan, a former head of the national police agency with the rhetorical delivery and ruthlessness of a dalek. (Horie campaigned in a black T-shirt sporting the word "Revolution". (Guardian Unlimited -- Business)
There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons in the world today - most much more powerful than the one which destroyed Hiroshima in a flash and killed over 100,000 people. We have had a shocking number of accidents and human errors involving nuclear weapons. (BBC News -- UK)
The widespread Japanese commitment to peace, after the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, extends to an understandable abhorrence of nuclear weapons. Yet military analysts say that US ships armed with nuclear weapons routinely pull into Japanese ports such as Yokosuka and Okinawa making a sham of Japan's "three nonnuclear principles" (not possessing, producing, or permitting nuclear weapons into the country). (Christian Science Monitor)
Then the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, putting an end to the war. Brown was reticent about his feelings at the time of his release. (The Union Democrat)
The Miata and diesel models for the Mazda5 and Mazda6 did well in Europe, offsetting sluggish sales in Japan and China, said Mazda, based in the southwestern city of Hiroshima. Mazda's robust results contrast with the dismal performance at Ford, which racked up a $12. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The Hokule'a will sail from Palau to Okinawa, then Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Uwajima and Yokohama, where Kalakaua signed the immigration treaty. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
A bullet train trip to Hiroshima is worth it for the Peace Memorial Park; your children can add an origami paper crane to the hundreds of thousands left by Japanese schoolchildren. Osaka Tourist Office () runs Visitor Centres in four railway stations and at Universal City; the largest is at Shin-Osaka, open 8am-8pm, English spoken. (News on Japan, Japan)
" Within this community is a strong nurturing element, with established bands, regardless of their success, always willing to help the next crop of talent. This can be seen with Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning assisting rising folk troubadour Andrew Morris, and Regurgitator taking young indie-pop band I Heart Hiroshima under their wing. "In other cities you wouldn't find the bigger players always so willing to help out other artists," Mr Connors said. "The Powderfinger boys are a great... (Courier Mail)
First nuclear act of terrorim my ass- the first nuclear terrorist act was hiroshima and nagasaki. Russia is not staffed by an alien race that uses special tactics that the west would never stoop to. (The Drudge Report)
President Harry Truman, who dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had a daughter, but she did not serve. President Bill Clinton sent troops to Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo, but his daughter did not serve. (Human Events Online)
The BAS said that the world faced its most critical choices since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War. "We stand at the brink of a Second Nuclear Age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices," it said. (Yahoo News -- Climate Change)
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no nuclear weapons have been used in war, though the world has come uncomfortably close to disaster on more than one occasion, Professor Hawking said. But for good luck, we would all be dead. (TimesOnline)
A number of alarming nuclear trends led to a statement by the Bulletin that "the world has not faced such perilous choices" since the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The worries include Iran's nuclear ambitions, North Korea's detonation of an atomic bomb, the presence of 26,000 launch-ready weapons by America and Russia, and the inability to secure and halt the international trafficking of nuclear materials such as highly enriched uranium and plutonium. (Yahoo News -- Climate Change)
A study in the early 1970s by Chicago University researcher Edward Stein found the psychological effects of surviving a serious plane crash were similar to those experienced by Hiroshima survivors. They included numbness, bad dreams and guilt that the subject had survived when others had not. (Sydney Morning Herald)
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