Blogposts tagged 'Hiroshima'

63 years today since the US nuked Hiroshima

Posted by saunvedan - 6 August 2008 at 4:03pm - 0 Comments

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There are few things that change history as much as war. Ask anyone who's lived through one and they'll tell you what it was like surviving it. But what if there are no survivors? Over 140,000 people perished within seconds of the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 63 years ago today. This morning, Japan marked the bomb drop at a ceremony in Hiroshima, and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Posted by admin - 25 July 2005 at 12:00am - 0 Comments

Painting by a survivor of the atomic bombings

Painting by a survivor of the atomic bombings

Why was the atomic bomb dropped in 1945?

Publication date:  20 March, 2007

A Greenpeace background briefing summarising the American debate on the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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