HIROSHIMA

Today, 06 August, was perhaps the blackest day in human history: on this day 71 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb (Little Boy) on the city of Hiroshima, Japan; three days later, on 09 August, it dropped another atomic bomb (Fat man) on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The two bombs killed at least 129,000 people; killed another 120,000 within the next two months; and ushered in the age of nuclear weapons and of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).

There is no Remembrance Day for the three-hundred thousand killed and maimed by the atomic bombs; though Hiroshima holds a Peace Memorial Ceremony at the Memorial Cenotaph in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on every 06 August.

The 'West' dominated media has no time to remind us of this massacre of humanity. And human memory being fickle, we have forgotten the great tragedy.

So let's join today to pay homage to the thousands of innocent civilians killed on that black day.

Amen.

 Paper lanterns float in the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima to mark the 65th anniversary of the World War II atomic bombing.

For the first time, representatives from the U.S. joined others from more than 70 nations at the Dome.

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