On Thursday, the Hiroshima Municipal Government said representatives from 91 nations and the European Union are scheduled to attend Saturday’s anniversary ceremony.
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“We need to fill our policymakers with the passion to solidify this unity and create a security system based on trust and dialogue”, he said.
Hiroshima’s Mayor Kazumi Matsui referred to the last year’s speech of US President Barack Obama, who also called on the world powers to pursue the world without nuclear weapons.
On Saturday August 6th, 2016 the Kingston Hiroshima Day Coalition marks the 71st anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a family-oriented gathering and peace lantern ceremony in McBurney Park (at Clergy & Ordnance in downtown Kingston). He did many years of research identifying 12 American war prisoners who also became victims of Hiroshima bombing in August 6, 1945.
A second bomb, “Fat Man”, was dropped over Nagasaki three days later, which killed another 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he would consider letting Japan and South Korea build their own nuclear weapons, rather than rely on the United States for protection against North Korea and China.
Hiroshima’s atomic bomb memorial park has finally been cleared of Pokemon Go characters after complaints that it was insensitive.
We must ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again. It was the second largest number, following the 100 countries past year that marked the 70th anniversary.
In an ideal world, “our legislators would cut back on or eliminate nuclear weapons”, said Peterson.
“A lot of nuclear weapons were accumulated during the Cold War, enough for half a million Hiroshimas, threatening to destroy all life on Earth”.
A recent Global Zero mailing reports, “In 1982, the world was bristling with over 57,000 nuclear weapons”.
A mother tends her injured child, a victim of the 1945 atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima, Japan.
In March, there were a total of 174,080 survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, compared to 372,264 in 1980, and their average age was 80 years.
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