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The Nuclear Age at 64: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Struggle to End Nuclear Proliferation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jeff Kingston ,
Tadatoshi Akiba ,
Tomihisa Taue  and
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann
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That weapon of human extinction, the atomic bomb, was dropped on the people of Hiroshima sixty-four years ago. Yet the hibakusha's suffering, a hell no words can convey, continues. Radiation absorbed 64 years earlier continues to eat at their bodies, and memories of 64 years ago flash back as if they had happened yesterday.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 33 , August 2009 , e1
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