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Topic: Hiroshima

A Palestinian youth stands on a street strewn with rubble following an explosion in the Saftawi neighbourhood, west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP via Getty Images)

How the Gaza war changed America

Nicholas Liu
People lay flowers at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial after a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary ceremony of the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 2025. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images))

Hiroshima remains an ongoing nightmare

Eric Ross - TomDispatch.com
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., speaks during the House Republicans' news conference on on the EPA rule on EV production in the Capitol on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOPer says Gaza should be like Hiroshima

Sophia Tesfaye
An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped. Dated 1945 (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

Was Hiroshima just a "nuclear test"?

Norman Solomon
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Movie posters for Barbie and Oppenheimer are pictured outside of the Cinemark Somerdale 16 and XD in Somerdale, New Jersey, 2023. (Hannah Beier for the Washington Post)

WB says sorry to Japan for Barbenheimer

Nardos Haile
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One hundred seconds till the apocalypse

Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump; Kim Jong-un (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Getty/KCNA/Salon)

Ellsberg warns of nuclear dangers

Greg Mitchell - Alternet
Marines fire their rifles during Rifle Salute during a commemoration for the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the naval harbor on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 at Kilo Peir in Honolulu. (Craig T. Kojima/The Star-Advertiser via AP, Pool) (AP)

Michael Winship - BillMoyers.com
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Japan PM won't apologize

Matthew Smith
Ann Coulter (Credit: Sarah Burris, YouTube)

Sophia Tesfaye
President Barack Obama (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Nuclear insanity in the U.S.

Ben Norton
Seaman 2nd class Dale Lipp, center, of Miamisburg, Ohio, holds the Navy’s famous “Pig 311” between his legs, while Seamen 2nd class Thomas Murphy, left, of Albany, N.Y., and Nathan Mangrum, right, of Nashville, Tenn., stroke the animal’s head at Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 1946 (Byron Rollins/AP)

Nagasaki and the atomic bomb

Alice Bingham Gorman
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Barack Obama (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Our enduring Hiroshima shame

Jack Mirkinson
A huge expanse of ruins left by the explosion of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 in Hiroshima. (AP)

We didn't need to bomb Japan

Gar Alperovitz
(Associated Press)

How America built its empire

Patrick L. Smith

"Congrats on a trifling day!"

Scott Eric Kaufman
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A huge expanse of ruins left by the explosion of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 in Hiroshima. (AP)

The old "All Lives Matter" lie

Arthur Chu

America's Hiroshima lies

Christian Appy - TomDispatch.com
Dick Cheney (AP/Eric Gay)

Cheney's self-parody

Sophia Tesfaye
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Noam Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
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Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
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Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
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