Hiroshima marks 65th anniversary of atomic bomb attack
The Japanese city of Hiroshima today marks the 65th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack that devastated the city during World War II.
Representatives from 74 countries attended a memorial with a representative from the US, UK and France present for the first time, and a minute’s silence was held at 8:15, the exact time that the bomb fell.
Approximately 140,000 people died as a direct result of the bomb which was dropped by United States forces on 6th August 1945, but the focus of today’s event was very much on working towards a future free of nuclear weapons.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, also in attendance for the first time, said the time had come to move from “Ground Zero, to Global Zero” – a world without any nuclear weapons.










I greatly enjoyed tuning into the first episode of a new five part series on Russia, presented by Jonathan Dimbleby, in which the journalist and broadcaster will be travelling the length and breadth of the country to, he says, get to know Russia through the eyes of ‘ordinary people’, away from all the politics.
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