Thought for the Week: Seventy years ago
8:16am. 6 August 1945.
by The Friend
7th August 2015
8:16 am
6 August 1945
American pilots dropped the world’s first atom bomb on Hiroshima.
Approximately 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the explosion.
At least 60,000 more were dead by the end of the year.
Many of those who survived suffered long-term illness and disability
from the radiation, including cancers, tumours and birth defects.
Three days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.
The bomb killed 74,000 people.
