Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Hiroshima Bombing
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Every year on this day there are numerous actions of anarchists in many countries of the world. In the United States, there are also protests aimed at the elimination of nuclear weapons, against the war in Iraq and “for” world peace.
However, it was America that pioneered and initiated nuclear war.
On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped on Hiroshima the first ever combat atomic bomb, which killed 66 thousand people at once, and about 70 thousand were seriously injured and died some time later.
Three days after Hiroshima, on August 9, 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki was bombed.
In official documents, the term "hibakusha" appeared - a victim of the bombing.
The Hibakusha became the untouchable caste, the atomic pariahs. It was difficult for them to get a job, to establish their personal life: who needs a spouse, in marriage with whom children can be born, predisposed to terrible diseases?
Among nuclear bomb survivors, 16 times more died of leukemia than the national average and almost 8 times more suffered from other cancers.
Hibakusha is a terrible stigma on hundreds of thousands of Japanese, passed on to children.
Bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki more than half a century ago continue to kill, and each year the death toll increases by several hundred people.
Events held on the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now aimed at enabling new generations to understand the horror endured by the victims of the nuclear disaster.
A website has been created for those who want to take part in protests. http://www.august6.org