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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 |
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), organization created (1899) at Columbus, Ohio, by veterans of the Spanish-American War . It received a charter from Congress in 1936. The organization later admitted veterans who saw action in subsequent wars and U.S. military expeditions. At the close of World War... Read more |
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War crime trials
War Crimes Trials War crimes are offenses against the laws of engagement of war, such as killing or mistreating civilians or prisoners of war. After World War II (1939–1945), the principle of punishing those involved in war crimes became established although it is a concept that is still... Read more |
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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 |
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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 |
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Abdullah I
Abdullah I (Abdullah ibn Husayn) , 1882-1951, king of Jordan (1946-51), b. Mecca; son of Husayn ibn Ali of the Hashemite family. During World War I, Abdullah, with British support, led Arab revolts against Turkish rule. After the war he unsuccessfully fought against Ibn Saud for control of the... Read more |
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John Richard Hersey
John Richard Hersey , 1914-93, American author, b. China, grad. Yale, 1936. Reflecting his experiences as a war correspondent in World War II, many of his writings are concerned with the problem of intolerance and inhumanity. His first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944; Pulitzer Prize), depicts the... Read more |
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Declaration of war
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Falklands War
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Abyssinian War
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Bombs
...catastrophic blast effects by scattering and then detonating large clouds of combustible material...Little Boy,” Uranium 235) fell on Hiroshima, and the second (“Fat Man,” Plutonium...introduced. The range of conventional bombs now includes containers filled with napalm... |
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Bourjaily, Vance (Nye)
...from his army job and his family after the bombing of Hiroshima. Bourjaily then became the editor of discovery, a distinguished departure...of the 1960s as it affects a middle‐aged man; Now Playing at Canterbury (1976), a kind of Canterbury... |
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World War 2
...the outskirts of Moscow and Leningrad (now St Petersburg). Italian defeats by the...peace (September 1943). German troops then occupied Italy, where they resisted the...August after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Estimates of the numbers... |
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Potsdam Conference
...casualness told Stalin that the United States now had a weapon of vast destructive force...Japan. Recent research reveals that Stalin then urgently accelerated his program to develop...the emergence of the Cold War.See also Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bombing of; ... |
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World War II
...STALIN in August 1939. Germany then felt free to invade the POLISH...followed a policy of APPEASEMENT, now delivered an ultimatum to Germany...Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia now joined the Axis Powers, and...culminating in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and ... |
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Hiroshima's lessons are about the future. (50th anniversary of the atomic...
...history that hold Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then Harry Truman...would be by now the final word...went to live in Hiroshima as the soundest...its leaders, then or now. Hibakushas know...Remembering Hiroshima is ... |
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I HAVE BEEN TO HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
A rebuttal to Hiroshima 50 years later CHARACTERS...20s (Woman 2) PLACE: Hiroshima & NYC TIME: 1945, 1959...Japanese Woman, but then, just by turning his...15 a.m. I die in Hiroshima. JAPANESE MAN: I wanted...Fourteen years from now, I'll go to ... |
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Hiroshima lives long in the memory
...the port of Hiroshima, and takes a...harbours. And then we came into Kure...impossible to ignore Hiroshima's shadow existence...naval academy (now a museum). It...the explosion, now a natural parkland...vibrant life of ... |
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The Mystery of Nagasaki // After Hiroshima Raid, 2d A-Bomb a Puzzle
...ended the war." If the Hiroshima bomb ended the war, then obviously the Nagasaki...later did not. What, then, did it do? After...Marching Orders, Hiroshima in America, and Combined...American's due, and now seems to have come back... |
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For Hiroshima's 60th anniversary, a moment of silence, water for the dead
...people outside of Hiroshima are forgetting the past."Though Hiroshima has risen from the...over the city, which then had a population of...The true toll on Hiroshima is hard to gauge...Hiroshima officials now put the total ... |
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Allegorical imperative: Rachel Kushner on Silvia Kolbowski's after Hiroshima...
...celebrated) trauma of Hiroshima and the secret one of...irreducibility. This link between Hiroshima and Nevers--two traumas...distinct in each--is now a classical formulation...a fictional remake of Hiroshima Mon Amour starring Greta...death with clubs.) ... |
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Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian...
...fifty-three years after Hiroshima, a billion or so more...used. One virtue of Hiroshima's Shadow--the book...a single stroke, and then try to justify that choice...to defend it, and so Hiroshima's Shadow, while giving...1945--those images, ... |
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Hiroshima marks 66th anniversary of atomic bombing.
...Peace Declaration, Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui...Matsui Kazumi's 2011 Hiroshima Peace Declaration...war, the people of Hiroshima were leading fairly...right here in what is now Peace Memorial Park and was then one of the city... |
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Hiroshima shows the facts are what make a good story FIRST WORD
...ve read the entire Hiroshima article from front to...The publication of Hiroshima heralded a new era in...survivors and victims. Since then this approach has become...offered a different tack. Now there were two mentors...all the grim lessons ... |
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Hiroshima Weighs Heavily on the Future
...history that hold Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then Harry S. Truman...would be by now the final word...went to live in Hiroshima as the soundest...its leaders, then or now. Hibakushas know...Remembering Hiroshima ... |
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