Explainer | ‘Unspeakable horror’: the nuclear bomb attacks on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a group of bomb survivors who loudly oppose the use of nuclear weapons
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors who are advocating for “a world free of nuclear weapons”.
The survivors are from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities that the United States dropped nuclear bombs on in 1945 at the end of World War II.
Hiroshima was hit on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing around 74,000 people.
Here are some facts about the attacks:
The first atomic bomb was dropped on the western city of Hiroshima by the US bomber Enola Gay.
The bomb was nicknamed “Little Boy” but its impact was anything but small.
