Nagasaki Recalls Atomic Bombing 55 Years Later
August 10, 2000 - 0:0
NAGASAKI, Japan Silence descended across this western Japan city on Wednesday as thousands gathered to pray and offer incense to the more than 70,000 who perished when an atomic bomb turned the city into an inferno 55 years ago.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was among the hundreds attending a ceremony to commemorate the bombing on August 6, 1945 three days after the first atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima.
Nagasaki estimates the bomb killed 73,800 people outright, with thousands more dying from radiation-related illnesses in the years that followed.
Less than a week after the Nagasaki bombing, Japan surrendered and World War II came to an end.
(Reuter)
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was among the hundreds attending a ceremony to commemorate the bombing on August 6, 1945 three days after the first atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima.
Nagasaki estimates the bomb killed 73,800 people outright, with thousands more dying from radiation-related illnesses in the years that followed.
Less than a week after the Nagasaki bombing, Japan surrendered and World War II came to an end.
(Reuter)