Thursday, August 6, 2020

Japan marks 75 years since nuclear attack

Bells have tolled in Hiroshima, Japan, to mark the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb. But memorial events were scaled back this year because of the pandemic. 
 On 6 August 1945, a US bomber dropped the uranium bomb above the city, killing around 140,000 people. Three days later a second nuclear weapon was dropped on Nagasaki. 
Two weeks later Japan surrendered, ending World War Two. 

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