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Meet the 12-year-old Hiroshima tour guide
Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, where he hopes visitors will leave with an ...
Eighty years on, Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors are still calling for peace
Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ageing survivors are urging the world to remember what was lost – and to imagine a ...
Hiroshima wasn’t the first target for bombing: These Japanese cities were on the original nuke list
While Hiroshima was selected as a target for the nuclear bombing by the US, a few other key Japanese cities were the initial ...
Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers
Hiroshima was bombed by the American military on Aug. 6, 1945, causing the deaths of about 140,000 residents by the end of the year and bringing to a close Japan’s imperial rampage across Asia and the ...
Hiroshima Day 2025: Meet Tsutomu Yamaguchi, The Only Man Who Survived Two Nuclear Blasts - His Unbelievable Survival Story
Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s survival story defies belief. He lived through both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and became a lifelong ...
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The Hiroshima mission – 80 years later
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world’s first atomic bomb that had ...
Hiroshima Day: Why only 9 countries possess nukes and what stops most nations from going nuclear
Hiroshima Day is marked every year on August 6 to honour the victims of the world's first nuclear attack. This year marks the ...
British POW who witnessed Hiroshima atomic bomb was 'dangled in hell and hauled out'
On this day in 1945, the world was changed forever when the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ...