Every year on August 6th, people all around the world commemorate the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, instantaneously killing thousands of people. It has been 78 years since Hiroshima, Japan, was destroyed by an atomic weapon.
On this day in 1945, the US dropped the atomic bomb on #Hiroshima, a city of 350,000 people, almost all civilians.
The barbaric & unprecedented nuclear attack had no military justification.
But there was an imperialist goal — to bully the rest of the world into submission.
The… pic.twitter.com/GzpD0ph4wN
— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) August 6, 2023
The anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States is commemorated with a yearly ceremony at the Galway Alliance War at Eyre Square.
History
During World War II (1939-1945), on August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the first ever atomic bomb, known as ‘Little Boy,’ on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. An estimated 140,000 people died instantly, and the city was levelled to the ground after the atomic bomb. Later, radiation caused the deaths of tens of thousands more people.
On this day in 1945, the #USA became the first and only country to attack using a nuclear bomb, killing up to 140,000 people in #Hiroshima, #Japan, the vast, vast majority of whom were civilians.
Three days later they would do it again, dropping another bomb on #Nagasaki. pic.twitter.com/hjSl4THqak
— Andy Boreham 安柏然 (@AndyBxxx) August 6, 2023
An additional 80,000 people were killed when a second B-29 dropped the atomic bomb known as “Fat Boy” on the city of Nagasaki three days later, on August 9. With the advent of a new and deadly bomb, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito declared unconditional surrender to the Allies in a radio broadcast on August 15.
Two cities in Japan were destroyed by atomic bombs developed by the United States as part of the Manhattan Project.
Significance
Awareness of anti-war and anti-nuclear protests on Hiroshima Day plays an important role in many nations. On August 6th, people all around the world pay their respects to the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II by visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
