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Nagasaki Day Observance and Philly Anti-War ‘REACH-OUT’ to Support the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic incineration of Hiroshima, the U.S. dropped its second nuclear bomb, code-named “Fat Man”, on Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 40,000 people, and thousands more from the delayed effects of radiation poisoning. Often called the “forgotten nuclear city”, Nagasaki, at the time, was the largest Christian population […]
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