In the following weeks, more Japanese died from radiation poisoning. ... The survivors of the bombing were faced with difficult situations that crippled them for generations. ... These malformations popped up randomly and stayed in families for generations. ... This argument is assuming that the U.S. would have to invade Japan. ... We offered Japan the idea of an unconditional surrender, however Japan was prepared to fight until the last man. ...

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Roosevelt declared war against Japan. ... On August 8th, 1945, the Soviets invaded Japan. ... Still the Japanese refused to surrender. ... Still the Japanese refused to surrender. ... However, I am thankful that my generation and the future generations did not have to find out what could have happened between American and Russia had we not dropped the bombs. ...

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Family Cultures in Japan Japanese families have many different family customs. ... Outside of the home we see some Japanese culture as well. ... There is also O-Ban, a death holiday and Japanese New Year. ... So as is reported, Japan is alive in culture. ... I have learned that Japanese believe in the stories that have been handed down from generation to generation. ...

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use of it against the Japanese". ... When he learned that the bombs would be used against Japanese cities, he, as he put it, "opposed it with all [his] power". ... This is because Americans in that time period really hated the Japanese, they were not quite sure what an atomic bomb really was and did not know of the harsh radiation after-effects, and because they were glad the war was finally over and no more American lives were spared. ... Also, as a new generation of people was formed, there was no longer a deep sense of hatred towards the Japanese. ...

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Examples are the Gurkha kukri of Nepal, the Malayan kris, the Japanese tanto, and the Bornese kurong. ... In feudal Japan, knights called samurai were the sword bearing class. "Japanese sword play became an art as well as a skill, with carefully observed rules that typified he Japanese concern for style in all aspects of life" (8). Samurai swords with family names inscribed on them were often handed down from father to son, generation after generation. ... By the sixteenth century, this Japanese sword bearing class faced the challenge of firearms, which caused them to hide in the depths of the...

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It also shows that women have learned from the past where they were badly treated, and have blocked the repetition from generation to generation by protesting and changing habits. ... On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb had never been used before and it's affects had never been tested, men discovered it's destructive powers and now fear them and are aware of them. ... For example at the beginning of the last century in America there were slaves who rebelled and hav...

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Over 105,000 people were instantly vaporized or killed by the two atomic explosions in Japan and another 94,000 people were injured (The Manhattan Engineer District 10). ... There is also the possibility that the people working in these power plants have undergone a change in their DNA structure that may radically alter the generations that come after them. ...

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Krepinevich and Kosiak also say that "A new generation of conventional and electronic weapons system could substantially displace nuclear weapons in conflicts of the future" Because of the mass killing a nuke is capable of it should not be used in war. ...

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The fiction of Wells was 24 years ahead of the discovery of fission when Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, both German chemists, observed the generation of barium, an element with about one-half the mass and charge of uranium, after uranium was irradiated with slow neutrons. ... The world obviously survived nuclear weapon use in Japan and the hundreds of above ground and underground nuclear weapons tests that were conducted during the 30 year period following the end of World War II. ... Forgotten was that one of the two types of nuclear weapons dropped in Japan had never been tested and the ot...

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