Hiroshima Marks 81st Atomic Bomb Anniversary As Mayor Deplores The Pursuit Of Nuclear Weapons
Mayor Kazumi Matsui warned that nuclear deterrence legitimizes violence as about 50,000 people gathered for the annual remembrance ceremony.
- 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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Hiroshima Day ceremony in Chicago to take on nuclear proliferation
WASHINGTON—August 6 is Hiroshima Day. Eighty-one years ago, on August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Scholars have debated ever since why the U.S. used the bomb and then dropped a second A-bomb on Nagasaki three days later, on August 9, 1945. Was it to bring a quicker end […]
Reading John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima,’ 81 years on
by John Hersey. Eighty-one years ago Thursday, an atomic bomb exploded over Japan. One year later, The New Yorker handed its entire Aug 31, 1946 issue to one 31,000-word article telling the story of six people who survived. Hersey — reporting on a clerk, a tailor’s widow, two doctors, a priest, and a pastor — gave US readers their first sense of what the new superweapon did to human bodies. Read Hiroshima in The New Yorker’s archive, or buy it a…
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