Kyuma: Atomic bombs ended World War II
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Japan's defense minister said Saturday that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, drawing criticism from atomic bomb survivors.
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Japan's defence minister apologises for saying the US atom bomb attacks in World War II were inevitable.
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A mine in the Democratic  Republic of Congo that provided uranium for the U.S. atomic  bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 -- the first nuclear weapons  used in warfare -- is too dangerous to reopen, the United  Nations said on Tuesday.
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Poland had a strong resistance - but the uprising was crushed Historians in Poland have discovered the wreckage of a World War II RAF Halifax bomber along with the remains of its British and Canadian crew.Comment
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The Japanese city of Hiroshima marked the 61st anniversary of the world's first atomic attack on Sunday as its mayor renewed calls for a nuclear-free world and further support for aging survivors.
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Scientists isolate plutonium for the first time. Next up, the atomic bomb. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Navy Self-defence force in 100-mile-high skeet shoot Japan has become the second nation to acquire functioning ballistic-missile defence equipment, carrying out a successful shootdown yesterday. A target rocket representing a medium-range enemy missile was engaged and destroyed 100 miles above the Pacific by a Standard SM-3 interceptor fired from a Japanese warship, JS Kongo. The target took off from the US Navy missile range facility on Kauai, Hawaii.â¦
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Fumio Kyuma, the defense minister, had made comments apparently justifying Americaâs use of atomic bombs against Japan during World War II.
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Where does this guy get off? Did the Dreyfus trial take place here? Did we invent the word "youpin" (French for "zhid")? Did we build the nuclear reactor in Iraq that was planned with Israel's destruction in ...
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Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. VIENNA, Austria  - More than 40 countries with peaceful nuclear programs
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Japan's defence minister apologized on Sunday for comments about the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on the country that outraged survivors and drew criticism from the ruling bloc ahead of a key election in July.
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BERLIN  - Some 5,000 residents of a Berlin suburb were evacuated from their homes Saturday while explosives experts defused a 250-kilogram U.S. bomb believe dropped during the last months of the Second World War, police said.
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Air raids, roadside blasts, suicide bombings, land and sea battles and thousands killed. So much for the 2002 ceasefire between Sri Lanka's army and the Tamil Tigers.
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No more Japanese nuclear reactors need to  be closed for inspections, the operators said on Wednesday  after submitting reports ordered by the government following  Japan's deadliest nuclear industry accident last week.
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KARIWA, Japan  - A Japanese nuclear power plant was ordered to stay closed until safety was assured after an earthquake caused radiation leaks, while the U.N. nuclear watchdog said the operator had misjudged the risks.
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Description: The International Atomic Energy Agency says hundreds of tons of Iraqi high explosives it had placed under seal have disappeared.
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Remember the population bomb that was set to devour the world's food and pollute its air? Much of its detonation power has leaked out.