11.   Just two months later, Oe visited Hiroshima and spoke with survivors of the atomic bombing.

12.   More Japanese probably died in the firebombing of Tokyo than in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

13.   Some scholars believe that the atomic bombing had the perverse effect of allowing Japanese to regard themselves as victims of the war rather than its cause.

14.   That only an atomic bombing could crush such a brave warrior spirit?

15.   The atomic bombing of Japan was not necessary because Japan was ready to surrender anyway.

16.   The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki rest uneasily in the American memory.

17.   The Japanese Jewish community and outsiders alike seethe at periodic attempts to equate the Holocaust with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

18.   The United States still refuses to exchange ambassadors with Vietnam, and has conflicting emotions over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with no consensus in sight.

19.   This is unfair to the Mariana Islands, of course, which are populated by Chamorros, Carolinians and Micronesians who had nothing whatever to do with atomic bombings.

20.   Overseas survivors are those who experienced the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II but who now live outside Japan.