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75th Commemoration of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

In Japan today, 6th August 1945 America detonated it's first nuclear weapon called "Little Boy" over the Japanese city of Hiroshima while the second bomb named "Fat Man" was detonated three days after - 9th August at Nagasaki city the same year.

The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.

The bombs immediately devastated their targets. Over the next two to four months, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed between 90,000 and 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000 and 80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. Large numbers of people continued to die for months afterwards from the effects of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable military garrison.

The war in Europe had concluded when Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945, and the Allies turned their full attention to the Pacific theater, this was to be the first start of Nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Between the year of 1946 and 1962 the U.S government named a number of sites in the Marshall Islands and other Pacific Ocean sites "The Pacific Proving Ground" in which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962.
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      • Pass the Solution for Nuclear Justice
      • 75th Commemoration of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
      • Solidarity with Guahan
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      • International Day for Human Rights 2020
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        • Raise the Morning Star 2019
        • Vigil and Call to Action 2019
        • Free the West Papua Seven
        • Fiji NGO Coalition Call for Intervention
        • MACFEST Solomon Islands 2018
        • Youngsolwara Artist Camp 2018
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