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Remembering August 6, 1945 For First Atomic Bombing On Hiroshima
Time To Take Forward The Goal Of Prohibiting Nuclear Proliferation
by Dr Arun Mitra
August 4, 2022
As we approach August 6, we remember 8.15 am on that day in 1945 when the US exploded first ever nuclear weapon on human population at Hiroshima in Japan. This was followed by another attack on Nagasaki on 9th August. Over two lakh people died on these two days in these two cities. Number of people injured, rendered destitute, homeless and orphaned far exceeds this number. Effect of radiations on the generations after that is still felt. That was the time of unprecedented humanitarian crises and agony never heard of before.
Dr. Marcel Junod, the new head of the ICRC’s delegation in Japan was the first foreign doctor to reach Hiroshima on September 8, 1945, one month after the dropping of the atom bomb. He described that
