“Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”

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  • The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is on display at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Virginia after restoration in August 2003. 2025-08-07 19:08

    Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings necessary?

    Was it a show of power to end the war — or shape the peace?

    The order to attack Japanese cities with atomic bombs was issued on July 25, 1945, by acting U.S. Army Chief of Staff Thomas Handy to Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces, to "deliver (the) first special bomb as soon as weather will permit after about Aug. 3, 1945. ... The target list: 'Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Nagasaki.' "

  • Japan demo 2024-08-09 19:36

    US faces protests in Japan for opposing Nagasaki refusal to invite Israel

    Scores of pro-Palestine protesters gathered outside Washington’s diplomatic mission in Tokyo to protest the US’ opposition to Nagasaki government’s decision to keep Israel away from an event to commemorate the 1945 nuclear bombing of Japan, Anadolu reported.

  • Godzilla 2024-04-20 17:42

    By Ali Hamedin

    "Godzilla Minus One" and "Oppenheimer": narrating the atomic bombing from two lenses

    TEHRAN-In 1945, at the end of World War II, the United States sent two ambassadors of peace to Japan: “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”. These not-so-harsh names belong to the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bombings killed about 220,000 people, mostly civilians.

  • SALAMI 2023-09-26 22:08

    IRGC chief likens media war against Iran to Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings 

    TEHRAN – During a speech on Tuesday, the chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) addressed the foreign media campaigns against Iran while drawing parallels with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

  • Iran-Japan Love and Peace Film Festival 2023-08-16 18:39

    Iran-Japan Love and Peace Film Festival held in Hiroshima

    TEHRAN – The 10th edition of the Iran-Japan Love and Peace Film Festival was held in the presence of a number of Iranian war veterans and artists of the Tehran Peace Museum in Hiroshima.

  • Japanese peace activist meets Iranian diplomat 2023-01-28 21:10

    Number of sanctions victims far greater than US atomic bombings: Iran's Araghchi

    TEHRAN - Abbas Araghchi, the secretary of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations (SCFR), has said the victims of U.S. economic sanctions are much more than those killed in the U.S. atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.