t r u t h o u t | 08.06
Hiroshima Marks Bomb Anniversary With Hope for US Change
Agence
France-Presse reports: “The mayor of Hiroshima on Wednesday urged the
next US president to work to abolish atomic weapons as the city marked
the 63rd anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack. Some 45,000
people, including Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, gathered at a memorial
to the dead within sight of the A-bomb dome, a former exhibition hall
burned to a skeleton by the bomb’s incinerating heat. They stood up and
offered silent prayers at 8:15 am, the exact moment in 1945 when a
single US bomb instantly killed more than 140,000 people and fatally
injured tens of thousands of others with radiation or horrific burns.
Delivering a speech at the memorial, Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba
noted the United States was one of only three countries which oppose a
UN resolution submitted by Japan calling for the abolition of nuclear
arms.”
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