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 is also scheduled to unveil a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Hiroshima.
PM said that his presence at the G7 Summit is particularly meaningful as India this year holds the G20 Presidency.
Prime Minister will participate in the G7 Summit in Hiroshima where India has been invited as a guest country.
US President Joe Biden will not travel to Papua New Guinea and Australia later this month as originally planned due to the ongoing stalemate in negotiations with Congressional leaders to address the debt ceiling, multiple US media outlets reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Without being alarmist, one must take note of the fact that the possibility of a third world war has been more discussed this year – 2022 - than any previous year since 1945.
