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No more ‘Pokemon Go’ at Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial
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As thousands of people gathered in Japan to honor the 71st anniversary of the United States bombing of Hiroshima, the city’s mayor called on world leaders to visit the site.
As citizens of the United States, we invite people to publicly ask God for forgiveness for the USA atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which caused the immediate death of more than 200,000 people, and hundreds of thousands more who died in the aftermath as a result of radiation poisoning.
She recalled the bombings that took place 71 years ago on August 6 and 9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities of Japan, and paid tributes to the people who were killed, maimed and injured.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only cities in the world that have suffered a nuclear bomb attack.
The mayor quoted part of President Obama’s speech in his May visit to Hiroshima in which he said that nations, like the United States, that hold nuclear stockpiles, must have courage to put fear behind them, so that in the end, everyone could live in a nuclear free world. Hiroshima was our original sin, and we are still paying for it, even if most Americans do not recognize this. About 120,000 people were killed outright by just one atomic bomb (called “Little Man”) and almost a quarter million over time from injuries and radiation effects.
USA Today editorial: “The bombings, as horrendous as they were, saved the lives of millions of civilians and soldiers who surely would have died had the US gone ahead with an invasion of Japan”. “To that end, I once again urge the leaders of all nations to visit the A-bombed cities”.
“We think that Hiroshima Day is a very appropriate time to remember the horrors and insanity of nuclear weapon policy”, said Bach, who is also a member of the Massachusetts Peace Action group, which is coordinating the week of remembrance events.
“A lot of nuclear weapons were accumulated during the Cold War, enough for half a million Hiroshimas, threatening to destroy all life on Earth”. Now it’s time to lead the world beyond it – to move to safer national security strategies that do not put all that we care about at risk, under the false premise that threatening to use nuclear weapons against others can protect us.
Since then nuclear bombs have never been used by any country, and the 1945 bombings remain controversial.
Hiroshima after the bombing.
“In May, for the first time, as US President, Barack Obama visited Hiroshima”.
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Jordan Hansen, the co-president of the Global Zero local chapter, helped to organize the event and said that it is a good way to remind people of the real threat that nuclear war still poses to the world.