TOKYO, Aug 4 — Thursday marks 75 years since the United States unleashed the world’s first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the second and last on Nagasaki, vapourising lives, buildings and Japan’s capacity for war. At 8:15am on August 6 (2315 GMT,...
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TOKYO, Aug 4 — Thursday marks 75 years since the United States unleashed the world’s first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the second and last on Nagasaki, vapourising lives, buildings and Japan’s capacity for war. On August 9, the United States dropped another bomb, dubbed “Fat Man”, about 420 kilometres to the south over Nagasaki, instantly killing more than 75,000 people beneath a mushroom cloud which grew as high as 9,000 metres.Archive footage shows pre-bomb Hiroshima as a bustling, thriving city of trilby-topped gentlemen boarding trams, ladies dressed in elegant kimonos, and uniformed schoolchildren walking beneath cherry blossoms overhanging shopping streets.
Japan will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the two cities on August 6 and August 9 this year.
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