People press their hands together at the memorial cenotaph for the atomic bomb victims at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on Aug. 6, 2017. (Mainichi)
The Mainichi: Hiroshima marks 72nd A-bomb anniversary with eyes on ban treaty
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Hiroshima marked the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Sunday at its annual memorial ceremony, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui calling on the Japanese government to help realize a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
This year's ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park near Ground Zero follows the adoption by 122 United Nations members of the world's first treaty to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons.
The pact's preamble uses the Japanese term "hibakusha" in its mention of the "the unacceptable suffering" of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings that killed an estimated 214,000 people by the end of 1945.
But Japan refused to participate in the treaty, along with the world's nuclear weapon states and other countries under the U.S. nuclear umbrella.
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WNU Editor: Here are a few links on Hiroshima that I have posted over the years.
* Photographing Hiroshima On August 6, 1945 (From The Ground)
* Hiroshima After The Atomic Bomb -- 360Cities – Panoramic Photography Blog
* An American Witness To The Hiroshima Bombing Who Was Not Suppose To Be There
* Hiroshima 1945 And Hiroshima 2010
6 comments:
You people must learn to forget about it
You people must learn to forget about it
Forget about it at your peril.
Bob Huntley,
The Secret History of Hiroshima Supports Trump on Nuclear Weapons
Explain to me why the Tokyo bombing which killed 120,000 people was not the worst bombing of Ww2?
Explain to me why it is better to get bayonetted than shot?
Also explain to me the in& outs of the Japanese nuke program that was based in Northern Korea.
Explain to me why it is better to get asphyxiated than irradiated?
Explain to me why getting dragged into a fire storm a block or two away is better than getting hit with a shockwave?
Explain to me why starving to death is less worse than radiation sickness?
Azino Smith
Explain to me how your questions relate to my comment.
"Forget about it at your peril. "
And you meant what by this comment?
If the Japanese forget, they face a threepeat?
Or America faces committing a heinous act (by Leftist standards)?
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