Photographs of the vapourised city taken in August 1945 are poor, grainy substitutes.
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Are we joining the bugout UN or are we going to be vapourised?
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Members of the Labour Party were so energised by their own enthusiasm they vapourised themselves.
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Radio New Zealand's Beijing correspondent Ryan Bridge told Morning Report some of those nearest the blast had "simply vapourised."
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Our masters run from station to station at our cost, as vapourised ladies at home run about from spa to spa.
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They also brewed a diplomatic storm with Washington, whose minor success in nudging the Palestinians towards indirect peace talks may have vapourised.
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Other counties well up in a furnace and blast out a legacy and find themselves vapourised by the intensity of their own effort.
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Yesterday morning cups of water were brought as symbolic offerings as, 60 years to the day after the city was vapourised, Hiroshima remembered its dead.