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American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai

Through the centuries, whether combatants have fought with spears, bows and arrows, muzzle-loading rifles, naval cannons, long-range bombers, nuclear weapons or...

Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. military dropped the first of only two nuclear weapons ever deployed during wartime, destroying an entire Japanese city

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June 18, 2013

"We do not have data that says Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons. We do not have such objective data."

- VLADIMIR PUTIthe Russian President, at a news conference in Paris after talks with the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy
October 10, 2006

"The transfer of nuclear weapons... would be considered a grave threat to the United States. And we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action."

- President George W. Bushwarning North Korea not to export any nuclear technology to other countries
August 02, 2007

"There's been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That's not on the table. "

- BARACK OBAMAwhen asked whether he would use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan and Pakistan to defeat terrorism and Osama bin Laden

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