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Never Forget What Happened in Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN, AUG 2 – Hiroshima held its first memorial honoring Korean Peninsula atomic bomb survivors amid growing nuclear tensions, remembering over 140,000 lives lost in the original blast, officials said.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Never forget what happened in Hiroshima
The horror of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima lingers still.
Few moments of World War II have been analyzed in as much detail as the hours that took place between the departure of the Enola Gay bomber from an American base on Tinian Island, at 02.45, and the launch of the atomic bomb, baptized Little Boy, against the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 08.15 on August 6, 1945, now 80 years ago. At that moment, humanity broke a barrier that until then seemed insurmountable: the possibility of annihilating itself…
Tess escaped the world's first atomic bomb. Here's what she wants the world to know - Overpasses For America
Sitting in her Melbourne lounge room, Tetsuko ‘Tess’ McKenzie flips through faded photographs with her family. But one image has never left her mind — the blinding flash of 6 August 1945 when she witnessed the world’s first nuclear bomb strike the Japanese city of Hiroshima. “I was standing on a railway platform when suddenly a strong white light flashed into my eyes,” the 96-year-old told SBS News. “And I turned to my friend and asked her, ‘Wha…
Eighty years since Hiroshima. How much longer can the world’s luck hold?
As was his wont on long flights, Col. Paul Tibbets, piloting a B-29, puffed on his pipe as, 80 years ago Wednesday, he transported humanity from one geopolitical era to another. His radio operator was watching for an “abort” signal…
On the 2nd, the Hiroshima Prefectural Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Council (Choshinokyo), made up of Korean atomic bomb survivors living in Japan, held a memorial gathering for the Korean victims who died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the U.S. military. This was the first memorial gathering by the Choshinokyo in 80 years since the end of the war. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left many Koreans who were forced to work as mi…
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