EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY - HIROSHIMA DAY

Today marks the 80th Anniversary of HIROSHIMA DAY, an unique event in the history of the world...

Harry S. Truman, the then President of the USA deciding to unleash the nuclear arsenal against her war adversary Japan. A decision which saw countless lives vanish from the face of this earth, ironically in the name of saving thousands from the unending war...

As Enola Gay dropped "The Little Boy" on Hiroshima this day, and Bockscar "The Fat Man" on Nagasaki three days later, with a dubious history of sorts being created - arguably yet the most terrible genocide - World War II came to a close at an inhumanely unimaginable price...

It remains till date the only instance where a nation used nuclear weapons against another. Though it ended World War II at an inhumanely unimaginable cost, it is arguably yet the most terrible genocide...

Around 200,000, with many more people dying later from injuries and illness, "The Little Boy" managed to raze down almost  everything in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Several generations suffered the after-effects of radiation. The temperatures were reported to have crossed 4000°C. The incident shook the world, thus giving birth to several anti-war and nuclear disarmament movements...

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons...

We salute the vision, dedication and hard work of Japanese citizens to have risen from the rubble to be amongst the world’s top five economies...

The day will always remind us of the futility of war and its terrible destructive after-effects, and the need for and importance of universal harmony and peace. It is for us to pledge that we work together to ensure that the world doesn't witness such a day ever again...

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