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80th A-bomb anniversary

Gyoshu Utsumi (C), Buddhist monk from Japan, chants a sutra during a memorial ceremony for the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6, 2025, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, marking the 80th anniversary of the bombings. Oak Ridge was home to several Manhattan Project facilities linked to the development of the bombs.

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80th A-bomb anniversary

Tufts University Professor Emily Strasser hang a paper crane during a memorial ceremony in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on Aug. 6, 2025, marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oak Ridge was home to several Manhattan Project facilities linked to the development of the bombs.

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80th A-bomb anniversary

A man prays during a memorial ceremony in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on Aug. 6, 2025, marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oak Ridge was home to several Manhattan Project facilities linked to the development of the bombs. Oak Ridge was home to several Manhattan Project facilities linked to the development of the bombs.

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Evergrande Group Filing For Bankruptcy Protection in The United States

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 18, 2023 - The logo of Evergrande Real Estate is seen at the construction site of a real estate project in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 18, 2023. According to several foreign media reports, on August 17, Eastern time, Evergrande Group applied for creditor protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.

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Evergrande Group Filing For Bankruptcy Protection in The United States

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 18, 2023 - The logo of Evergrande Real Estate is seen at the construction site of a real estate project in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 18, 2023. According to several foreign media reports, on August 17, Eastern time, Evergrande Group applied for creditor protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.

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Evergrande Group Filing For Bankruptcy Protection in The United States

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 18, 2023 - The logo of Evergrande Real Estate is seen at the construction site of a real estate project in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 18, 2023. According to several foreign media reports, on August 17, Eastern time, Evergrande Group applied for creditor protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.

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Evergrande Group Filing For Bankruptcy Protection in The United States

HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 18, 2023 - The logo of Evergrande Real Estate is seen at the construction site of a real estate project in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 18, 2023. According to several foreign media reports, on August 17, Eastern time, Evergrande Group applied for creditor protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.

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U.S. scientist involved in Manhattan Project speaks

FALLS CHURCH, United States - Isabella Karle, a U.S. scientist involved in the Manhattan Project to develop atomic bombs during World War II, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at her home in Falls Church, Virginia, on Dec. 13, 2014. Karle, 93, said she wished at the time that the project would be unsuccessful.

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U.S. scientist involved in Manhattan Project speaks

FALLS CHURCH, United States - Isabella Karle (L), a U.S. scientist involved in the Manhattan Project to develop atomic bombs during World War II, poses with her daughter Jean during an interview with Kyodo News at her home in Falls Church, Virginia, on Dec. 13, 2014.

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Witness account of Hiroshima bombing sent to Manhattan Project head

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows copies of an eyewitness account written by the Rev. John A. Siemes (1907-1983), a German priest of the Society of Jesus, of the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Time magazine that carried the account. A recently discovered document shows that the priest's account was sent in autumn of 1945 to U.S. Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project.

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The Manhattan Project (1986)

John Lithgow Characters: John Mathewson Film: The Manhattan Project (USA 1986) / Titel Auch: 'Manhattan Project - Der Atomare Alptraum' Director: Marshall Brickman 13 June 1986 Date: 13 June 1986

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The Manhattan Project (1986)

Christopher Collet & John Lithgow Characters: Paul Stephens & John Mathewson Film: The Manhattan Project (USA 1986) / Titel Auch: 'Manhattan Project - Der Atomare Alptraum' Director: Marshall Brickman 13 June 1986 Date: 13 June 1986

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The Manhattan Project (1986)

Christopher Collet, John Mahoney & John Lithgow Characters: Paul Stephens,Lt. Col. Conroy & John Mathewson Film: The Manhattan Project (USA 1986) / Titel Auch: 'Manhattan Project - Der Atomare Alptraum' Director: Marshall Brickman 13 June 1986 Date: 13 June 1986

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Plutonium Atomic Bomb

'Fat Man' Atomic bomb of the types dropped on Nagasaki. 'Little Boy' was the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and 'Fat Man' the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Date: 1945

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Atom Bombs

Atomic bombs of the types dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 'Little Boy' the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and 'Fat Man' the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Date: circa 1945

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MANHATTAN PROJECT

MANHATTAN PROJECT CHRISTOPHER COLLETT, CYNTHIA NIXON Date: 1986

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U.S. designates WWII nuke projects sites as nat'l park

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell speaks in Washington on Nov. 10, 2015, during a ceremony to mark the designation of three sites related to the Manhattan Project, the nation's nuclear weapons program in the 1940s, as a national park. The three-site park is expected to open to the public in a few years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. designates WWII nuke projects sites as nat'l park

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (L in front) shakes hands with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz in Washington on Nov. 10, 2015, after signing a document to designate three sites related to the Manhattan Project, the nation's nuclear weapons program in the 1940s, as a national park. The three-site park is expected to open to the public in a few years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Manhattan Project engineer Brown gives interview in Washington

Norman Brown, who participated in the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as an engineer of the Special Engineer Detachment, gives an interview at his home in Washington in June 2015. He was involved in purifying the plutonium that went in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. He told his Japanese friend about his involvement in the project after visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1994. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. officials for Manhattan Project park visit A-bomb exhibit

Kenji Shiga (far L), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima, Jonathan Jarvis (far R), director of the U.S. National Park Service, and other U.S. officials exchange views on the exhibitions at the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at the American University Museum in Washington on June 14, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. officials for Manhattan Project park visit A-bomb exhibit

Kenji Shiga (far R), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima, guides officials of the U.S. National Park Service at the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at the American University Museum in Washington on June 14, 2015. The U.S. federal government agency is leading a project to create the Manhattan Project National Historic Park to commemorate the American nuclear program in the 1940s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Manhattan Project engineer speaks about Nagasaki bombing

James Schoke, an engineer involved in the Manhattan Project, pictured during a recent interview with Kyodo News at his home in the U.S. state of Florida. Schoke, 91, said he was against the use of nuclear weapons against civilian targets and that the United States "could have waited" before going ahead with the A-bombing of Nagasaki, its second nuclear attack on a Japanese city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Manhattan Project park not to promote specific views: supporter

Cynthia Kelly (C), president of the Atomic Heritage Foundation, holds talks with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue in New York on May 1, 2015. She indicated that promoting specific views on the history of U.S. atomic-bomb development is not the intention of a national park to be built to commemorate facilities related to the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. wartime atomic-bomb program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Physicist involved in Manhattan Project calls for removal of all nuke arms

Benjamin Bederson, professor emeritus at New York University and physicist involved in the Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bombs, calls for the elimination of all nuclear weapons in the future during an interview with Kyodo News in the U.S. city on March 26, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. ex-army engineer recounts experience of seeing 1st A-bomb test

Roger Rasmussen, 94, speaks in an interview at the Los Alamos Historical Museum on April 2, 2015, two days prior to one of two public openings of the Trinity test site at the White Sands Missile Range. Rasmussen served in the U.S. Army's special engineering detachment as an electrical engineer at Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. He witnessed the Trinity test of the project's plutonium bomb on July 16, 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Witness account of Hiroshima bombing sent to Manhattan Project h

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows copies of an eyewitness account written by the Rev. John A. Siemes (1907-1983), a German priest of the Society of Jesus, of the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Time magazine that carried the account. A recently discovered document shows that the priest's account was sent in autumn of 1945 to U.S. Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project. (Kyodo)

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Witness account of Hiroshima bombing sent to Manhattan Project h

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the Rev. John A. Siemes (1907-1983), a German priest of the Society of Jesus, who survived the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and helped to rescue other victims. An eyewitness account of the bombing he wrote was sent in autumn that year to U.S. Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, a document recently discovered shows. The photo was provided by the Society of Jesus (Kyodo)

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Hudson Yards redevelopment project in New York

Photo shows a large commercial facility in Manhattan, New York, on its opening day on March 15, 2019, as part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hudson Yards redevelopment project in New York

Photo shows a just-opened large commercial facility (L) and the Vessel observatory deck (C) in Manhattan, New York, on March 15, 2019, as part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek, pictured, as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

American military jacket of Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was installed by historian Martin Krsek as exhibit of the month in the Municipal Museum of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, on December 13, 2019. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. The jacket was donated to the museum by Christopher Hornig, the son of scientists Lilli and Don Hornig. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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unveiling of plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

The plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was unveiled on her birth house, in the form of a photograph of her childhood, on November 1, 2019, in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. On the photo author of the memorial plaque project Michaela Valaskova, left, speaks to journalists. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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unveiling of plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

The plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was unveiled on her birth house, in the form of a photograph of her childhood, on November 1, 2019, in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. On the photo are seen L-R historian Martin Krsek and author of the memorial plaque project Michaela Valaskova. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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unveiling of plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

The plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was unveiled on her birth house, in the form of a photograph of her childhood, on November 1, 2019, in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. On the photo is seen author of the memorial plaque project Michaela Valaskova. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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unveiling of plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

The plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was unveiled on her birth house, in the form of a photograph of her childhood, on November 1, 2019, in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. On the photo are seen L-R historian Martin Krsek and author of the memorial plaque project Michaela Valaskova. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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unveiling of plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

The plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was unveiled on her birth house, in the form of a photograph of her childhood, on November 1, 2019, in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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unveiling of plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig

The plaque commemorating Czech-American scientist Lilli Hornig was unveiled on her birth house, in the form of a photograph of her childhood, on November 1, 2019, in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Hornig worked on the Manhattan Project, on making the first nuclear weapon, during World War II. On the photo are seen L-R historian Martin Krsek and author of the memorial plaque project Michaela Valaskova. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Hajek)

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Hudson Yards redevelopment project in New York

Photo shows a Uniqlo store at a large commercial facility in Manhattan, New York, on its opening day on March 15, 2019, as part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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55 Hudson Yards

Photo taken Oct. 18, 2018, shows 55 Hudson Yards, a newly completed 51-story office building in Manhattan. The skyscraper is part of the Hudson Yards redevelopment project in progress in the area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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55 Hudson Yards

People look at an architectural model of Hudson Yards, a redevelopment project in progress in Manhattan, during a preview event for its newly completed 51-story office building 55 Hudson Yards on Oct. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo