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A community portal about Hiroshima with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Japanese city of Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest of Japan's islands. It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Hiroshima gained municipality status on April 1, 1889 and was designated on April 1, 1980 by government ordinance. The city's current mayor is Tadatoshi Akiba who assumed the office on February 23, 1999.
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The atomic bombing of Japan
09/08/2008 03:55:00 PM GMT
(www.solarnavigator.net) The U.S. bombing of Japan killed perhaps half a million people
63 years after the U.S. bombing of Japan, few of the ‘lessons’ of the attack seem to have been learned.
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Since the late 1940s the common justifications for President Truman's decision to... Read Full Story
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As the world next week remembers the devastation inflicted by the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima 63 years ago, the Greens want Australia to cut off uranium exports to nuclear weapons states.
At a Hiroshima Day commemoration gathering in Sydney on Saturday, Greens MP John Kaye said the threat of a... Read Full Story
"We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we "think" we have found the way to cause a disintegration of the atom. An experiment in the New Mexico desert was startling - to put it mildly. Thirteen pounds of the explosive caused the complete disintegration of a steel tower 60 feet high, created a crater 6 feet deep and 1,200 feet in diameter, knocked over... Read Full Story
The Childrens Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Park - thousands of folder paper cranes are offered there by schoolchildren. The Children’s Peace Monument is also called the “Tower of a Thousand Cranes”, for many thousands of folded paper cranes are offered there all through the year. The origin of the monument can be traced back more than four decades. The Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima is a moving testimony to the ravages done by the nuclear explosion in 1945. Built as a memorial... Read Full Story
{mosgoogle right}The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration issued by Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba at a memorial ceremony on Wednesday, the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
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Another August 6, and the horrors of 63 years ago arise undiminished in the minds of our hibakusha, whose average age now exceeds 75. "Water, please!" "Help me!" "Mommy!" -- On this day, we, too, etch in our hearts the voices, faces and forms that vanished in the hell no hibakusha... Read Full Story
