Argus title : Remember horrors of Hiroshima
Sixty years ago today, on the 6th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. At least 140,000 people died. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, resulting in at least 100,000 deaths.
Throughout Sussex, people will gather – as they do every year in Brighton, Hailsham, Lewes, Hastings, Crawley and elsewhere – to commemorate those who died and commit themselves to work for a non-nuclear future. Continue reading