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Was Hiroshima and Nagasaki a Sin?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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Nuclear effects of the atomic bomb lingered in Japan for years.

Do Hiroshima and Nagasaki's effects on our logic linger in America?

We at the Register were startled by the number of angry letters — a few of them canceling subscriptions — that we received in response to Catherine and Michael Pakaluks’ column calling America's use of the atomic bomb 60 years ago “Our National Sin.”

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