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Explore curated articles, essays, and analysis on Hiroshima Day (August 6), atomic bomb history, nuclear disarmament, and global peace advocacy.
HIROSHIMA DAY - Must-Read Articles
Discover Better World Info’s hand-curated selection of must-read articles on Hiroshima Day and learn how you can actively advocate for global peace and nuclear disarmament.
Our essential guide offers you in-depth information on the vital importance of remembrance, honouring the survivors, and raising widespread awareness to ensure the catastrophic horrors of August 1945 are never repeated.
These articles highlight how history’s hardest lessons have still not been learnt, exposing the dangerous reality as nuclear-armed states continue to stockpile, expand, and modernise their nuclear arsenals.
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- Oppenheimer: the Movie and the Moment to Prevent the Next Nuclear War - CD 26.07.23 364344
- A Time to Mourn, Not to Celebrate - Pressenza 21.07.23 363291
- August 6 – Hiroshima Day: A Time to Mourn, Not to Celebrate - Pressenza 21.07.23 363226
- ‘A ball of blinding light’: Atomic bomb survivors share their stories - National Geographic 20.07.23 363228
- Hiroshima Memories - The Bulletin 17.07.23 363229
- World Faces 'Loaded Gun' on Hiroshima's 77th Anniversary - CD 07.08.22 300740
- Tweet: Any leader who refuses to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is unworthy of your vote. #Hiroshima - @TimMilesWright 06.08.22 301673
- Tweet: Magnificent Gairloch Horties #HiroshimaDay installation at the UKgov HQ in Edinburgh today - @TridentPlough 06.08.22 301675
- The People in Hiroshima Didn’t Expect it Either - Counter Punch 03.08.22 298923
- Child of victim plays violin that survived A-bombing - Spokesman 02.08.22 298922
- UN Chief Going to Hiroshima for 77th Anniversary of A-bomb - VOA 02.08.22 298920
- Campaign magazine: August 2022 - CND UK 08/22 300850
- What we knew in the wake of Hiroshima - Times Observer 30.07.22 298925
- 6th AUGUST 2022 Nuclear Ban, Sow Peace, Let’s build the future together - Pressenzaa 26.07.22 298842
- ‘I fear that for a third time in history a nuclear bomb might be used’ - Financial Review 22.07.22 298926
- Horrors of Hiroshima, a reminder nuclear weapons remain global threat - UN News 15.01.22 270053
- ‘People arrived for work and got vaporised’: how Kikuji Kawada captured the trauma of Hiroshima - Guardian 04.10.21 256604
- Hiroshima is a Lie - Counter Punch 06.08.21 252674
- 76 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Fresh Call for End to All Nuclear Weapons - CD 06.08.21 255521
- Nuclear Weapons Still a Clear and Present Danger 76 Years After Hiroshima - CD 06.08.21 254955
- Olympics Committee said it won't pause for a moment of silence for Hiroshima atomic bombing - Insider 01.08.21 254934
- Biden’s Atomic Veterans Day is symbolic — but will he curb nuclear weapons? - Truthout 25.07.21 252108
- “Atomic Cover-Up” Unveiled - GregMitch.medium 21.03.21 246080
- Campaign Magazine - edition 8/20 213352
- Remember each and every person - IPPNW 06.08.20 215100
- Nukes are not only history: Discuss this on August 6 and 9 and all other days - The Transnational 06.08.20 213770
- Hiroshima Day on August 6th remembers the day when the U.S. dropped an Atomic Bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima, followed by Nagasaki... - Better World Info on Twitter 03… 217153
- The Original Child Bomb: A Meditation on the nuclear age - Mary Becker 03.08.20 213354
- Another Hiroshima Is Coming Unless We Stop It Now - John Pilger 03.08.20 301997
- Documentary: Original Child Bomb - youtube 25.07.20 213353
- The Slaughter of Hiroshima: Seventy years ago today, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Here’s one survivor’s story - Jacobin 8/15 71020
- Japanese Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe on 70th Anniv. of US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - DN! 06.08.15 335275
- The Atomic Bomb, Then and Now - Dennis Kucinich 8/14 71021
- Students pledge to work for peace on Hiroshima Day 8/13 71023
- 67 Years Ago: The Tragic 'Atomic Cover-up" Began 6/13 71024
- From Hiroshima to Fukushima - CounterPunch 8/12 71025
- Japan marks anniversary of atomic attack on Hiroshima - Guardian 8/12 71026
- A-bomb doctor warns of further Fukushima woes - Japan Times 7/12 (Archive) 71027
- Guardian - Hiroshima: 60 years on (2005) 71028
- Fukushima Clouds Hiroshima Anniversary - IPS 04.08.11 71029
- Keeping Faith With Peace - Bill Bichsel, Yes! 8/11 71030
- Hiroshima Peace Declaration (August 6, 2011) - Kazumi Matsui, Mayor, City of Hiroshima 71031
- Countdown to Hiroshima for August 2, 1945 (X minus 4 days) - Nation 8/11 71032
- Dr. Marcel Junod is honored at ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of his death 6/11 71034
- Dr. Marcel Junod (1904-1961) - Wikipedia 71035
- Why Hollywood ignores Hiroshima - Guardian 8/10 71039
- The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today - John Pilger 8/10 71040
- 'There was a flash. Then everything turned black' - Independent 8/10 71041
- Hiroshima, Iraq victims have much in common, activist says - Global Research 8/10 71042
- US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time - Common Dreams 8/10 71043
- Coming Of Age In Hiroshima - YES! 8/10 71044
- The Bomb - Howard Zinn 8/10 (amazon) 71045
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cruel Experiment by Americans (Video) ?8/09 71047
- 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima - BBC 8/09 71048
- The 64th Anniversary of USA Terrorism Enlightened by the Wisdom of Nonviolence 7/09 71049
- The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century - Guardian 06.08.08 71050
- Hiroshima: the ‘White Man’s Bomb’ revisited - Spiked 8/05 71051
- Hiroshima Cover-up: Stripping the War Department’s Timesman of His Pulitzer 8/05 71053
- Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department's Timesman Won a Pulitzer 8/04 71054
- Hiroshima 59 Years Later - Two Traditions: WMD and Disinformation 8/04 71056
- Hiroshima Story 8/04 71058
- Finding Peace in Hiroshima 8/04 71059
- Remember Hiroshima & Nagasaki - Centre for Research on Globalisation 4/02 71061
- Forgetting the Bomb: The Assault on History 5/95 (Archive) 71062
- Hiroshima Appeal - Proposition One 2/85 71063