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Japanese Monster Fans Come Out of Their Shells for Gamera

As Japanese monsters go, Godzilla stands tall as both the first and the one that best defines this rubber-costumed creature genre. But there is a certain percentage of the fan base just as devoted to Gamera, the fire-breathing flying turtle who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, starred in a series of films in which,...

A Neutron Bomb Primer: 5 Key Questions and Answers

(Dec. 2) -- His legacy lives on. Physicist Samuel T. Cohen died this week, roughly 50 years after using pencil, paper and a slide rule he received for his 15th birthday to create the neutron bomb, the Los Angeles Times reported. A cousin of the conventional nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the...

Hiroshima Is History: When Is It Time to Move On?

WASHINGTON (Aug. 6) -- They say history repeats itself. I'm not so sure, but controversies over the past do keep coming back. Today, as a U.S. representative took part for the first time in Japan's annual commemoration of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I read that the son of that mission's commander was upset....

Should the US Apologize for Bombing Hiroshima?

(Aug. 6) -- Each and every anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan is a solemn reminder of the horrors of international conflict and nuclear fallout. The only instance of nuclear weapons being used in wartime, the near-total destruction of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 -- and Nagaski three days later -- killed...

US Attends Hiroshima Ceremony for First Time

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(Aug. 6) -- For the first time since the atomic-bomb decimation of Hiroshima 65 years ago today, a U.S. representative attended the annual ceremony honoring those who were killed. Ambassador John Roos was among the 55,000 people who stood in silence for a minute as a Buddhist temple bell rang out at 8:15 a.m., the exact...

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05/30/12 No expansion of Hiroshima 'black rain' medical... Source: Mainichi Daily News - Japan Areas covered by free checkups for people exposed to radioactive "black rain" after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima should not be expanded, a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare panel concluded on May 29.
05/29/12 Duck Lake Fire emergency coordinator: 'It looks like... Source: Advance Newspapers - Ann Arbor MI A key Duck Lake Fire official likens a section of the fire along Lake Superior to Hiroshima.
05/29/12 It's time to stop being scared of the atom Source: Telegraph - London - UK Indeed, "nuclear risk" is in a category all of its own, as was seen all too clearly last year when a major natural disaster, the Tohoku earthquake, which killed tens of thousands of people, was quickly overshadowed in the global collective consciousness by the consequent nuclear incident at the Fukushima plant, which killed no one.
05/24/12 Former nuclear testing tower demolished in Nevada... Source: Mountain Home News - Elmore County ID The 1,527-foot-tall BREN tower was the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River.
05/22/12 Crime âº Chinese inmate who escaped from Hiroshima... Source: Japan Today A Chinese inmate who escaped from a Hiroshima prison on Jan 11 was sentenced to an extra 2 years and 4 months by the Hiroshima District Court on Tuesday.