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...greatly reduced capability to protest. The French government has very shrewdly focused on this strategic weakness, and was able to explode the bomb with very little resistance," reports TIME's James Geary. Hours before the explosion, a blast more than five times as powerful as the one that levelled Hiroshima, the French seized another Greenpeace vessel, the fourth since the tests began last month at the Mururoa Atoll. The strong international protests that marked the first test were also absent this time, with Japan, Russia, the United States and the European Commission merely expressing "regret." In Papeete, the site...
...morning brings two developments. One is that Whiting and Baker have been caught. They evaded the French for two days. That is a victory. A bit later, the news comes that the French have exploded their first bomb, a small one about the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima...
American and Japanese veterans of World War II will gather Saturday in Honolulu for a privately-sponsored commemoration of the day, 50 years ago, when Japan officially surrendered. Much has been made of the anniversaries last month of the bombings at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but Nation editor Howard Chua-Eoan notes that, for American veterans, this is the date that matters. "The signing of the papers that ended that grisly conflict holds enormous import for those that fought it. Commemorating that event in Honolulu, where it all began, provides a sense of closure...
WHILE THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO PERISHED in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have my heartfelt sympathy, I cannot help wondering how different history would be if President Truman had decided not to drop the Bomb. The hundreds of thousands who would then have died could have been Indonesians, Koreans or other Asians killed in a Japanese invasion. Hiroshima and Nagasaki remind us how innocent people become casualties of war-a war they may not want to support. At least the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped prevent what could have been the obliteration of humans on an even larger scale. CHANDRA DEWI...
...than three miles across, generating so much energy, Rhodes writes, "that the crews of the task force 30 miles away felt a swell of heat as if someone opened a hot oven." The yield was 10.4 megatons, a force a thousand times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, a blast greater than all the explosives used during World...