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A cross taken from a Nagasaki cathedral after the atomic bombing gets returned 74 years later via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2019/08/08 by nfield

By Matt Field, August 7, 2019 Short on time and fuel, the crew members of the B-29 bomber Bockscar flew over Nagasaki, Japan, scanning for an opening in the clouds. They had already abandoned their initial target, the city of Kokura, … Continue reading →

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‘Atomic-bombed cross’ returns to Nagasaki as a symbol of hope via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2019/08/08 by nfield

NAGASAKI–A Christian cross that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki and cemented an otherwise-unlikely friendship between a Japanese bishop and a U.S. Marine has returned home to Urakami Cathedral here after 74 years. Clasping the gold-trimmed wooden artifact, Mitsuaki … Continue reading →

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