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August 6, 2021

Hiroshima Marks 76th Anniversary of U.S. Nuclear Attack
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Today marks 76 years since the United States dropped the world's first
atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated
140,000 people. During a ceremony today at the site of the blast,
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed Japan would work with other
nations to promote nuclear disarmament. But he did not mention the
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which Japan has not
signed. Democracy Now! visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in 2014 and
spoke to a survivor of the bombing. Click here to see our coverage.


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