August 6: Today Is the Hiroshima Day

U.S. atomic bomb explosions over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right) cities of Japan in 1945

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The New York Times reports of the Hiroshima bombing

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Today, August 6, is the Hiroshima Day, observed throughout the world remembering the dead and suffering resulting from the U.S. atomic bomb explosions over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9 of 1945. On this day, people also promise not to revisit the nuclear bombing in future. 

To gain a deeper knowledge of these unfortunate past events, the reasons behind them, and their repercussions for the future, please continue reading the following:

• Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- World War II
• The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (atomicarchive.com)
• 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (BBC News)
  
• Why the A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
• Hiroshima Bombing Photos (www.google.ca)
  
• Nagasaki Bombing Photos (www.google.ca)
  
• Hiroshima Atomic Bomb (1945): A Day That Shook the World (YouTube video)
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Before and After the War Photos
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos from the Ruins (TIME magazine)
  
• Haunting Hiroshima and Nagasaki pictures compare cities now and immediately after bomb attacks
• A Photo-Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see
• Nagasaki: one day after the atomic bombing seen in newly-discovered photos
• Amazing color pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb
• Declassified Photos Show the US's Final Preparations for the Nuclear Attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Hiroshima Survivor Junko Morimoto talks about the day the atomic bomb landed on her city
• Hiroshima: 70 Years AFter the Atomic Bomb
• The Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945
• Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day: Notable Quotes to be Shared on 70th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
•  The conversion of the Catholic priest [Father George Zabelka] who blessed the [U.S.] atomic bomb crews
• Father George Zabelka: A Military Chaplain Repents
• Blessing the Bombs: A Catholic Priest's Journey from Nagasaki to Nonviolence (by Father George Zabelka)
• Fr. George Zabelka: The Reluctant Prophet (a video) 
• Tough lessons to learn from Hiroshima and Nagasaki: just war, nuclear disarmament

(Updated on August 16, 2015)