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Atomic bomb dropped on Japan's Hiroshima 75 years ago still reverberates - NBC News
Aug 06, 2020 1 min, 21 secs
dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima — marking the end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age — but survivors like Masaaki Takano still live with the consequences.

Although the case has renewed public consciousness of the bombing, and the technology that made it, some worry that the world hasn’t heeded the dangers of nuclear weapons.

And today, the awesome and terrifying destructive power unleashed by “Little Boy,” as the Hiroshima bomb was known, still haunts the world in the form of vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

Seven years old, Takano said he tried to catch some of the objects as they showered down.

He also lost his mother to cancer 19 years after the bomb dropped.

Tetsushi Yonezawa, who turns 86 on Sunday, was traveling on a busy train just 820 yards from the bomb.

“There are now a number of developments happening in the nuclear arms field, which are seeming to receive no public attention whatsoever.”.

An exchange of fewer than 1,000 nuclear weapons could kill as many as 100 million people in a matter of hours, said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the nonpartisan Arms Control Association, based in Washington.

“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” he said.

Yet global tensions are at their highest since the end of the Cold War, Kimball said

Even countries with smaller arsenals, such as India and Pakistan, with fewer than 200 warheads each, have increasingly been at odds, Kimball said

“No matter how much money we spend to harden our infrastructure against a terrorist threat, that does nothing to defend us against a tiny invisible virus,” Kimball said

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