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Hiroshima Day 2023 is all set to be observed worldwide on August 6. The day marks the anniversary of nuclear attacks on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II and aims to raise awareness of the devastating effect of nuclear bombs. Hiroshima Day also pays homage to those who lost their lives in the attack and others who were left behind to suffer for decades. Hiroshima Day 2023 Date Below mentioned are the upcoming dates for Hiroshima Day 2023 for the next 5 years. Event Date Day Hiroshima Day 2023 August 6, 2023 Sunday Hiroshima Day 2024 August 6, 2024 Tuesday Hiroshima Day 2025 August 6, 2025 Wednesday Hiroshima Day 2026 August 6, 2026 Thursday Hiroshima Day 2027 August 6, 2027 Friday Hiroshima Day 2023 Overview Event Hiroshima Day 2023 Date August 6, 2023 Day Sunday Declared by Japan Purpose To raise awareness about the devastating power of nuclear bombs and remember the victims of nuclear bomb attacks in Hiroshima. Facts about Atomic Bombing & Hiroshima Day Here are some hard-hitting facts about the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which happened on August 6, 1945: • The estimated number of people who died till the end of year 1945 due to radiation-related injuries and illnesses was around 140,000. • Nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima has the explosive effect of more than 15,000 tons of TNT. • Sources state that before dropping the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, the US Air force dropped pamphlets warning people of the bombing. • The Peace Flame ...

The only known photos from Hiroshima taken on Aug. 6, 1945 Yoshito Matsushige took the only known photographs of Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city during World War II. Nearly half a century later, Matsushige told his story to Max McCoy, a reporter visiting Hiroshima from Kansas. McCoy speaks with The World's host Marco Werman about the photographer who captured the devastation on film that day. Max McCoy: [Yoshito Matsushige] didn't take any photographs for quite a while. He could not bring himself to do it. Finally, he did take some photographs at a place called the Miyuki Bridge. And at this location, there was a policeman at a table writing out relief certificates for rice for the survivors. The policeman was heavily bandaged. There was a group of junior high school students clustered on the bridge seeking relief. The only thing that the police could think to do for them was to put cooking oil on their wounds. His most reproduced photographs were on the bridge. And looking at them, you might think that the junior high school students — that their clothes are in tatters and hanging down. But what you're really seeing is their skin, that the bomb flayed them and their skin is hanging down. And so it's quite moving and quite horrifying. And after Matsushige finished the photographs on the bridge — and it took him several minutes on the bridge to work up the courage to trip the shutter — he could not take anymore a...