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After the bomb

Michael Newman, a lecturer in peace and conflict studies at London Metropolitan University, was in Japan to mark the 60th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Here he reflects on the experience and the affect the bomb had on the country, then and now.

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