Texarkana Gazette

EDITORIAL | Lives lost, lives saved: Atomic bombs brought carnage of WWII to an end

It's been eight decades since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attack on Hiroshima was first. On August 6, 1945 -- 80 years ago today -- the crew of the U.S. B-29 ...
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Bomb aftermath was 'a scene of a complete chaos that I'll never forget'

James Kane owned the Hillcrest Bar at the time of the bombing Fifty years ago James Kane was about to have his dinner when he heard a huge bang and the ground shook. He knew immediately that it had to ...
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Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...