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Sixty years ago, Miyoko Watanabe walked out of her house in Hiroshima and saw a flash of light and felt fire rolling toward her. It was the explosion of the atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. Air Force plane Enola Gay. Her father perished, along with some 140,000 citizens of Hiroshima, and another 80,000 citizens of Nagasaki three days later. She survived, and as a 75-year-old recounted her story in Sunday's New York Times.
In a moving plea, along with thousands of other Japanese, she called for the elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020. While that goal may seem fanciful, "we have to keep trying, one step at a time," she said.See the full content of this document
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New Era of Uncertainty in N-Age Dawns
Whose heart cannot be tugged by such a cry from the only nation to have experienced the horrors of atomic warfare?
But the fact is, that with the weekend stalling of attempts to defuse nuclear weapons developmen...See the full content of this document
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