3 d. ago Nagasaki mayor says never again as Japanese city commemorates 80th anniversary of US atom bomb attack

The US dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima that killed 140,000.

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4 d. ago Nagasaki’s bells ring for the first time in 80 years to mark US atomic bombing

The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 claimed approximately 70,000 lives

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4 d. ago Nagasaki’s twin bells ring in unison for first time in 80 years to mark atomic bombing

Mayor of Japanese city used the anniversary of US bombing to urge the world to stop armed conflicts, warning nuclear war was ‘looming’ over everyoneTwin cathedral bells rang in unison in Nagasaki for the first time in 80 years on Saturday, commemorating the moment the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.The two bells rang out at Immaculate Conception cathedral, also called the Urakami cathedral, at 11.02am, the moment the bomb was dropped on 9 August 1945, three days after a nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 80 years after the atomic bomb: A photo gallery from Hiroshima

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city.

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7 d. ago Hiroshima anniversary: How The Scotsman reported the atomic bomb dropping in Japan 80 years ago

First reports of the bomb that changed the world were triumphant in tone - and short of detail of destruction caused given the “impenetrable cloud” which covered Hiroshima.

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7 d. ago Hiroshima survivor, 87, reveals what saved him from certain death after atom bomb detonated less than a mile away

Speaking today to mark the anniversary of the disaster, Howard Kakita revealed the seconds leading up to the explosion, and told how he was knocked out 'instantaneously'.

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7 d. ago Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since atomic bomb

City’s mayor urges world leaders to learn lessons of Hiroshima amid global military buildup

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7 d. ago British POW who witnessed Hiroshima atomic bomb was 'dangled in hell and hauled out'

On this day in 1945, the world was changed forever when the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing thousands of civilians within seconds

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7 d. ago Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’

On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrentThe mayor of Hiroshima has led calls for the world’s most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.As residents, survivors and representatives from 120 countries gathered at the city’s peace memorial park on Wednesday morning, Kazumi Matsui warned that the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East had contributed to a growing acceptance of nuclear weapons. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Hiroshima’s fading legacy: the race to secure survivor’s memories amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship

Eighty years on from the destruction of the city, registered survivors of the blast - known as hibakusha – have fallen below 100,000The fires were still burning, and the dead lay where they had fallen, when a 10-year-old Yoshiko Niiyama entered Hiroshima, two days after it was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.“I remember that the air was filled with smoke and there were bodies everywhere and it was so hot,” Niiyama says in an interview at her home in the Hiroshima suburbs. “The faces of the survivors were so badly disfigured that I didn’t want to look at them. But I had to.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 8 decades after atomic bombing in Hiroshima, search for missing continues on nearby island

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to a small rural island south of Hiroshima

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3 w. ago Nagasaki cathedral blesses a bell that replaces one destroyed by the US atomic bomb

Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell restored by a group of Americans

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