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TODAY is a grim anniversary. Eighty years ago, the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed an estimated 210,000 people

Kazumi Matsui denounces ‘flagrant disregard’ of lessons from tragedies of history on 80th anniversary of nuclear bombing

Japan this week marks 80 years since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing World War II to an end. For the first time, Hiroshima has opened its memorial ceremony to all countries, including representatives from Taiwan and the Palestinian Authority.

City’s mayor urges world leaders to learn lessons of Hiroshima amid global military buildup

Japan held a memorial service and ceremony for victims and the remaining survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima, marking its 80th anniversary and renewing pledges of working towards a world without nuclear weapons.

On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrent

Hiroshima marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city on Wednesday

The world entered its nuclear epoch 80 years ago on August 6 1945. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing between 70,000 and 140,000 civilians by the end of that year.

The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more powerful