Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’

"A sitting US rep in a secret town hall feels comfortable musing privately about genocide," said a user on X who circulated video of Walberg's comments late Friday. A reply to that comment read: "Exactly what Jesus would do, right?"…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/31/tim-walberg-republican-congressman-gaza?

Looking back at the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Terry Gross, Dave Davies; Fresh Air podcast)

The U.S. used atomic weapons against Japan 78 years ago. We listen back to archival interviews with psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and journalists Lesley M.M. Blume and Evan Thomas about the decision.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1193189051/looking-back-at-the-decision-to-drop-atomic-bombs-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

The 'Hiroshima Cover-Up' & The Journalist Who Exposed The Truth (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)

Historian Lesley M.M. Blume's new book, 'Fallout,' tells the story of John Hersey, the young journalist whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons. "Hersey had seen everything from that point, from combat to concentration camps," Blume says. "But he later said that nothing prepared him for what he saw in Hiroshima."
Interview:
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903895214/the-hiroshima-cover-up-the-journalist-who-exposed-the-truth

Americans Are Unprepared for a Nuclear Attack - POLITICO

The U.S. government hasn't made it easy to know what to do when the bomb drops. A new organization is trying to fix that. ....
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/11/would-you-know-what-to-do-during-a-nuclear-attack-218675

Atomic Tests During the 1950s Probably Killed Nearly Half a Million Americans -- Mother Jones

You probably need something to cheer you up after the tax follies of this week. So how about a scholarly examination of how many Americans were killed by atomic bomb testing in the 50s? I think that should do the trick. Here's the background. ....
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/12/atomic-tests-during-the-1950s-probably-killed-half-a-million-americans/

On This Day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki - UPI.com

On August 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, three days after doing the same to Hiroshima.....
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2017/08/09/On-This-Day-US-drops-atomic-bomb-on-Nagasaki/5441502253580/