Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan special assembly marks 79th anniversary of Hiroshima Day
The special assembly was held to carry forward the legacy of world peace and disarmament.
The special assembly was held to carry forward the legacy of world peace and disarmament.
‘No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin‘ said The New York Times front page on 13 September 1945, a classic of planted disinformation, wrote Pilger. ‘General Farrell,‘ reported William H. Lawrence, ‘denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.‘ Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the ‘press pack‘
The 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki directs one to explore the ground reality and perceptions…
Not much publicity has been given in this part of the world to the fact that the American Hispanics faced brutal discrimination and were the first victims of the Manhattan Project that produced the bomb. It is a little known historical fact that when the US conducted the Trinity test, the world‘s first atom bomb explosion, but not with the kind of devastating effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the radiation fallouts due to wind direction affected the Hispanics severely
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky arrived for the G7 summit adding flavour to an antiRussian environment.
The prime minister gave this assurance to the Ukrainian president during their meeting on the margins of the G7 Summit.
Live footage on Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, showed Zelensky stepping off a French plane at an airport in Hiroshima.
Congress on Saturday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he unveiled Mahatma Gandhi's bust in Japan,
The G7 leaders are currently in Japan to attend the G7 Summit scheduled to be held in Hiroshima from May 19-21. Notably, Japan assumed the G7 Presidency in 2023.
Speaking to reporters in Hiroshima, after unveiling the bust of Mahatma Gandhi, PM Modi said that even today the world gets frightened when they listen to the word 'Hiroshima'.
