Tag: Hiroshima
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Eighty years ago this week, a flock of flyboys saved the world | Vince Bzdek
The flyboys were in the air as long as 17 hours on the night bombing raids from the Mariana Islands to Tokyo. Round trip was approximately 3,000 miles. Along the way the crews — average age 22 — faced Japanese Zeros, anti-aircraft fire, mechanical issues, air sickness, high winds and turbulence. “The Japanese fire from the…
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Legacy of uranium one of sadness and promise
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The legacy of uranium begins with the terrible power that ended World War II and poisoned the Navajo Nation. Its future promises pollution-free, endless energy. The development of the nuclear bombs that destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and compelled Japan to surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, began in 1939 when physicists Albert…