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12:00 pm
Nagasaki Day Plea for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons at the Basilica of SS Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral, Phila., PA
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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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