Oak Ridge remembers bombing of Hiroshima with ringing of friendship bell 80 years later

U.S. nuclear weapons sites remember 80th anniv. of Hiroshima A-bomb

Events commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima were held in some U.S. cities on Wednesday, its 80th anniversary, including Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where uranium was enriched to make a deadly weapon that ushered in the nuclear age.

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Oak Ridge remembers bombing of Hiroshima with ringing of friendship bell 80 years later

The Manhattan Project National Park held its annual bell-ringing ceremony at A.K. Bissell park to commemorate the 80th year since the end of World War II.