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August 4, 2010

US Envoy to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for 1st Time
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The Obama administration is sending a representative to Japan to mark
Friday’s sixty-fifth anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
It’s the first time a US administration has sent an envoy to Japan’s
annual ceremonies marking the attack. An estimated 140,000 people were
killed instantly or died within a few months after the bombing. Three
days later, another US airplane dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of
Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people.



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