Sentence examples for the atomic attacks from inspiring English sources

In 1980, Steven Okazaki, a documentary filmmaker, met a group of survivors of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But, as Japanese scarred by the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki know, money and comfort do not dispel the lingering effects of nuclear disaster.

Japan's cities were incinerated after similar Allied firebombing of German cities, whereas the atomic attacks even now remain unique in history.

By Dana Goodyear August 12 , 2008In 1980, Steven Okazaki, a documentary filmmaker, met a group of survivors of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The atomic attacks were ordered by President Harry S. Truman, and his oldest grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, was at both memorials this week, the first time a Truman relative has attended either of the ceremonies.

Toshiro Mifune, fresh from "The Seven Samurai" but nearly unrecognizable under a mask of old-age makeup, plays an industrialist so terrified by the radiation from the atomic attacks that he decides to move his family to Brazil, but ends up in a mental hospital for his trouble.

"This is totally inhumane," said Kwak Kwi Hoon, 77, the South Korean plaintiff, who was serving in the Imperial Japanese Army and suffered a spinal injury during the atomic attack.

It depicted Truman, his voice "tense with excitement," personally informing his shipmates about the atomic attack.

Tiny paper swans float across a lake of memory, folded over the decades in the manner of a tiny child injured in the atomic attack.

Like Compton, many U.S. officials and scientists argued that a demonstration would sacrifice the shock value of the atomic attack, and the Japanese could deny the atomic bomb was lethal, making the mission less likely to produce surrender.

It's been a notable year, with Barack Obama becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Japanese city and pay his respects to those who died (while not apologizing for the atomic attack).