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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
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
Mieko Mori prays in front of the Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a memorial monument for A-bomb victims where the flames collected from the ruins in the two cities since dropping of atomic bombs in 1945 have been kept burning at Ueno Park in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (AP)

Ground zero Nagasaki

Susan Southard - TomDispatch.com
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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

"Congrats on a trifling day!"

Scott Eric Kaufman
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
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Susan Southard - TomDispatch.com

America's Hiroshima lies

Christian Appy - TomDispatch.com
Scene still from "Dr. Strangelove"

America loves the bomb

Tom Jacobs - Pacific Standard
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