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NAGASAKI (Kyodo) The Japan Map Center has found 29 negatives of aerial photographs of Nagasaki taken by the U.S. military a day after it dropped an atomic bomb on the city in 1945, in a discovery expected to help reveal the immediate effects of the attack. The pictures, taken by a U.S. reconnaissance plane flying over the devastated city Aug. 10, 1945, were found at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. They are believed to be the first aerial photos of Nagasaki taken a day after the bombing to be made public. The oldest such photos, taken Aug....

American George Weller was the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following the U.S. atomic attack on the city on Aug. 9, 1945. Weller wrote a series of stories about what he saw in the city, but censors at the Occupation's General Headquarters refused to allow the material to be printed. Weller's stories, written in September 1945, can be found below.

Today is the second atomic weapon was dropped on Nagasaki Japan - August 9, 1945. Yes, I proudly say Thank God! Yes, America is the only nation to ever use atomic weapons! And you should thank your God as well - no matter where you are from! Although there are many on the left who claim that using this weapon not necessary (let alone developing Atomic weapons in the first place) looking at the truth in the history will show that it's use was not only justified, warranted, but was a humanitarian move on the part of the United States....

THE NUCLEAR bomb dropped on Hiroshima became an icon of the nuclear age, seared into the collective consciousness of postwar Americans by John Hersey's classic book. Fewer Americans remember much about the destruction of Nagasaki three days later on Aug. 9, 1945, and fewer still have reflected on lessons it offers for threats we face today. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki remains the single most powerful weapon ever used. Dubbed "Fat Man," it produced an explosion greater than all conventional bombs dropped by Allied forces on both Germany and Japan in the war. Within four months, the blast and thermal...

Thank you Harry Truman for preventing my father from becoming a possible statistic in an invasion of the Japaneese mainland .

Fox News just reported that a great American hero, Major Charles Sweeney, has died. Maj. Sweney was the pilot who dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, Japan to help bring an end to WW2.

MILTON - There was a break in the clouds, and Charles W. Sweeney, a young pilot, changed history. His B-29 bomber dangerously low on fuel, Sweeney finally captured a glimpse of the target below and delivered the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II. It was the second and last time an atomic weapon had been used, and the Japanese surrendered a few days after the Aug. 9, 1945, bombing. Sweeney, a retired Air Force general, died Thursday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 84. He was a Milton resident and a graduate...

SHINKOLOBWE, Congo (AP) - Business is booming in the mining zone that supplied uranium for the atomic bombs unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - despite a decree by Congo's president banning all mining activity here. President Joseph Kabila ordered the zone closed three months ago amid growing concerns that unregulated nuclear materials could get into the hands of so-called rogue nations or terrorist groups. Yet 1,000 miles away from the capital, Kinshasa, thousands of diggers are still hacking away at a dark cavity of open earth in this southeastern village, filling thousands of burlap sacks a day with black soil...

"An investigation, based on newly released documents, into President Truman's controversial decision to drop the A-bomb. Concludes that the real reason the U.S. dropped the bomb was to intimidate the Soviet Union." Several 'experts' explained that dropping the A-bombs on Japan were unnecessary [there were no dissenting points of view aired]. The announcer -- bearing an English accent -- explained that the reasons that Truman decided to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki were: 1. A raving desire for revenge on the part of the American people. 2. To use the opportunity to 'experiment' the new weapon on an expendable population. 3....

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

Filed at 6:59 p.m. ET CHICAGO (AP) -- Fred Olivi, who copiloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, has died. He was 82. Olivi, a native of Chicago, died Thursday at a rehabilitation center in a Chicago suburb, officials at Panozzo Bros. funeral home said Saturday. He suffered a stroke in August. The crew of the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, on Aug. 9, 1945, the crew of the B-29 bomber nicknamed Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered six days later, ending World War II. ``While thousands...

IKITSUKI JOURNAL Once Banned, Christianity Withers in an Old Stronghold By JAMES BROOKE Published: December 25, 2003 Masafumi Yamamoto for The New York Times A paper scroll once hidden, now on display in Ikitsuki's museum Masafumi Yamamoto for The New York Times Three "hidden Christians" taking a walk in the Ichibu area. The community survived three centuries of bannings, burnings and beheadings. IKITSUKI, Japan — In 1865 a group of 15 Japanese peasants cautiously approached Bernard Petitjean, the first Christian missionary to work in Nagasaki since 1614. Speaking in the sanctuary of the new church, the peasant leader confessed, "Our...

Roger Brisso served his country as a Marine during World War II, and is a living casualty because of it. A radio operator with the Second Marine Division, Brisso, who entered the Marine Corps in September 1942, worked his way through New Zealand, Saipan, and Okinawa. There are memories that last a man his lifetime, whether he likes it or not. Brisso is a Purple Heart recipient following an ambush in Saipan on Nov. 15, 1944. Three fellow soldiers - "dear friends," as he called them - were killed, and he and four others were wounded in the attack. But...

Recently we had to go back and visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the A-bombs. Or the effects thereof. On Aug 6th 1945 Hiroshima was bombed with a uranium load. On Aug 9th 1945 Nagasaki was bombed with a plutonium load. The total number killed was 210,000 and another 130,000 within 5 years from after effects. 340,000 attributed to 2 nuclear bombs. Of course America is blamed exclusively because we “dropped the big one” It is not the duty of our President, then Harry Truman to minimize the deaths of our enemies by sacrificing more Americans. Conventional fighting on Okinawa cost...

Nagasaki marked the 58th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Saturday, with its mayor voicing concern over North Korea's nuclear ambitions while Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated a pledge to uphold Japan's nonnuclear policies. Mayor Itcho Ito named North Korea for the first time in the annual Peace Declaration, saying, "Following nuclear tests by India and Pakistan, the disclosure by North Korea that it too possesses nuclear weapons has served to heighten tension" in the international community. Also expressing concern about the United States for indicating it will pursue the development of smaller nuclear weapons, Ito said,...

No. of A-bomb patients in Nagasaki hospital at record high Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 10:30 JST NAGASAKI — A Nagasaki hospital specializing in the treatment of survivors of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombings said Friday the number of inpatients there posted a record-high in fiscal 2002, with more patients now coming over from South Korea. The Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital said the number of inpatients still suffering from the effects of the atomic bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima rose in fiscal 2002 by 99 from the previous year to 1,363. (Kyodo News)

Japan Was 'Days Away From Test' of A-bomb By David McNeill in Tokyo 05 August 2002Japan's secret plans to build its own atom bomb have resurfaced with the uncovering of a dossier smuggled out of the country at the end of the Second World War. The papers, containing crude diagrams for a small nuclear weapon, were part of a six-year effort by military scientists to make the country the world's first nuclear power. According to yesterday's Asahi newspaper, the American widow of a Japanese researcher, who fled to the US with the document in 1945, has returned it to the...

Nagasaki, Mon Amour FrontPageMagazine.com | August 8, 2001 EACH AUGUST THE DEBATE RETURNS, this year won masterfully by my Front Page Magazine brother columnist Ronald Radosh: Should the United States on August 6, 1945, have dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? Given that the alternative would have required invasion of Japan and the deaths of perhaps a quarter-million Americans, a million or more Japanese, and prolonged suffering on both sides, most moral people answer Yes, we should have dropped the bomb. We had only three bombs, one to test and two to use and none to spare on a demonstration...