80 years ago, on 6 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The aim was to force a quick end to World War Two. The bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima and about 140,000 people were killed. In Nagasaki, another Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb by the US, three days later, at least 74,000 people were killed. The nuclear radiation released by the bombs caused thousands more people to die from radiation sickness in the weeks, months and years that followed.
Hiroshima was the world's first nuclear attack, and nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since the end of World War Two. Our first headline is about the 80th anniversary of the bomb. Hiroshima at 80, remembering the bomb, reimagining peace. And that headline from Gulf News.
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