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Hiroshima Hiroshima
Hiroshima , city (1990 pop. 1,085,705), capital of Hiroshima prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on Hiroshima Bay. It is an important commercial and industrial center manufacturing trucks, ships, automobiles, steel, rubber, furniture, and canned foods. The city is also a market for agricultural and marine... Read more
Weapons of mass destruction Weapons of mass destruction
Weapons of Mass Destruction ¦ ALEXANDR IOFFE The concept of Weapons of Mass Destruction appeared during War World II after the use of atomic bombs. In the mass consciousness, weapons of mass destruction are usually associated first with atomic weapons, although the concept... Read more
Tinian Tinian
Tinian , island (2000 pop. 3,540), 39 sq mi (101 sq km), W Pacific, one of the Northern Mariana Islands . The island lies immediately SW of Saipan. The inhabitants are of mixed Micronesian, Filipino, and Spanish descent. Tinian's once large phosphate deposits have been depleted. Vegetable gardening... Read more
Vance Nye Bourjaily Vance Nye Bourjaily
Bourjaily, Vance [Nye] (1922–), Ohio‐born writer, after service in World War II wrote The End of My Life (1947), a novel about a young man's collapse in the war, and The Hound of Earth (1954), about a scientist who runs away from his army job and his family after the bombing of... Read more
H-Bomb H-Bomb
H-BOMB A Time of War The H-bomb, or hydrogen bomb, resulted from scientific research that developed from the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan to end World War II. The H-bomb technology follows from that required for the A-bomb, so H-bomb... Read more
Nuclear Age Nuclear Age
NUCLEAR AGE. The nuclear age began in mid-July 1945 when an 18.6-kiloton nuclear bomb was detonated at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Three weeks later, on 6 August 1945, the world became aware of the existence of nuclear weapons when a U.S. B-29 bomber known as Enola Gay... Read more
Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras , 1914-96, French author, b. Gia Dinh, Indochina (now Vietnam). Usually grouped with the exponents of the nouveau roman [new novel] (see French literature ), Duras abandoned many of the conventions of the novel form. Her novels usually mix themes of eroticism and death, often... Read more
Itsuku-shima Itsuku-shima
Itsuku-shima , sacred island, 12 sq mi (31 sq km), in the Inland Sea, Japan, SW of Hiroshima. It is the site of an ancient Shinto shrine, famous for its magical beauty. It is also known for a 9th-century Buddhist temple, a pagoda (built 1407), a 16th-century hall built by Hideyoshi, and a huge torii... Read more
Chugoku Electric Power Company Inc Chugoku Electric Power Company Inc
Chugoku Electric Power Company Inc. 4-33, KomachiNaka-ku, Hiroshima 730-8701JapanTelephone: (082) 241 0211Fax: (082) 523 6185Web site: http://www.energia.co.jp Public CompanyIncorporated: 1951Employees: 10,122Sales: ¥1.02 trillion ($7.6 billion) (2002)Stock Exchanges: To... Read more

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