Horrors of Hiroshima Remembered On 1945 Anniversary
Survivors recall a bright flash and a roaring wind that turned a sunny morning into a nightmare. A bell rings at ground zero in Hiroshima as August 6, 1945 is marked with sorrow and anger amid memories of vaporized victims, scorched skin, and citywide devastation.
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Sunday Personalities Julia Still Listens To Lyle Lovett
Roberts admits it’s hard to listen to Lyle Lovett’s music though she still hears it. The Texas crooner’s 21 month marriage to Roberts is ending in divorce. While in a store with sister Lisa they heard Lovett’s voice over the sound system and exchanged a quiet reaction.
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Weather outlook with scattered showers and storms
Today expects showers and thunderstorms with highs from the lower 70s to mid 80s. Tonight continues with showers and storms and lows in the lower 60s to lower 70s. A-5 Lotteries weather package notes included.
Banquet marks end of West Virginia Municipal League conference
BLUEFIELD The state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Recht told about 350 attendees at the West Virginia Municipal League banquet that he wished he had them in 1982 when newspapers questioned his impeachment, as he recalled his school funding ruling that ordered equalized funding across 55 counties to ensure fair education, a decision many say remains only partly implemented today.
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Fifty Years After Hiroshima Refocus on Early Nuclear Discoveries
The piece argues that radiology, X-rays, and radioactivity emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through Curie, Roentgen, and Einstein, predating the 1945 bomb. It notes Rutherford’s early weapon speculation, Fermi’s fission, and the 1934 Soviet labs, leading to the Manhattan Project and the July 16 1945 test, with Aug 6 1945 publicized victory masking prior work.
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Area native Dr Gerald Looney an authority on the bomb
Dr Gerald Looney a Bradshaw native and former Bluefield resident leads in medical and strategic study of the Hiroshima Nagasaki bombings. He holds Johns Hopkins MD Harvard MPH Tufts residency and directs the Centinela Hospital Airport Medical Clinic in Los Angeles. He is linked to Dr Edward Teller and William B Looney among other notable ties.
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Edward Teller
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Bramwell Heritage Festival inaugurates new era in coalfield town
Bramwell residents gathered for the Bramwell Heritage Festival to mark the revival of the town’s historic culture after the old Street Fair faded. Bob Barnett led ceremonies launching a $100,000 Bramwell Bucks fund to support a future heritage resource center with notes from local leaders and support from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.
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