Hiroshima Marks 81st Atomic Bomb Anniversary As Mayor Deplores The Pursuit Of Nuclear Weapons
Takaichi reaffirmed Japan’s non-nuclear principles as survivors warned that support for nuclear deterrence is rising worldwide.
- On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, instantly killing an estimated 80,000 people and destroying 5 square miles of the city.
- President Harry Truman authorized the weapon's use after Japan refused to surrender, as military advisors warned an American invasion could cost up to 1 million US troops.
- Piloting the B-29 Enola Gay, Colonel Paul Tibbets carried the 9,788-pound "Little Boy" uranium bomb and told his crew, "We are carrying the world's first atomic bomb."
- The City of Hiroshima reported 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945 from radiation and burns, while Japan announced its surrender following a second atomic attack on Nagasaki.
- Hiroshima remains a lasting symbol of the nuclear age, fundamentally changing warfare and shaping international diplomacy around nuclear conflict and civilian protection for eight decades.
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The Genocidal Weapon and the Nuclear Exception
Photograph Source: Jakub Hałun – CC BY 4.0 It has been eighty-one years since the atomic bombings delivered an unmistakable message. From the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity was faced with a choice that Martin Luther King Jr. would later describe as one between “nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.” The intervening decades have made our answer painfully clear. As a result, today we live as prisoners consigned to a permane…
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Deccan ChronicleHiroshima marks 81st atomic bomb anniversary
TOKYO (AP): Hiroshima yesterday marked the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticising major powers for waging wars and urging them to stop justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a method of deterrence. “Downplaying the inhumanity of nuclear weapons and accepting the use of force to pursue one’s own prosperity risk cycles of violent retaliation that could ultimately result in another Hiroshima or Nagasaki,” Mayor Kazumi Matsui said.
The Age of Nuclear Destruction Began 81 Years Ago -- With Lies. It Could End the Same Way
( Mitchell Zimmerman Substack ) – The atomic age began with a lie. Eighty-one years ago this week, a single American airplane, flying almost unnoticed over a Japanese city, dropped a single bomb that destroyed the entire city. Three days later another American plane destroyed a second city. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 killed 100,000 people outright. By the end of the year another 100,000…
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