Hiroshima day 6 August 2020, 75th year still jolts the people of Japan and marked as disastrous day in history of World. Every year this day is observed to promote peace politics against the war. Hiroshima day aims to raise awareness about the threat of nuclear weapons and the dangers of nuclear energy.
World’s first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima
In1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people, tens of thousands die later due to radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. This leads to unconditional surrender in World War II announced on radio August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.
Those who survived the bombing of these two cities most of them injured have been called hirabakusa.
Long lasting effect of radiation and mental trauma they underwent, the plight of these survival was difficult.
Hiroshima Day is now a focus for anti-war and anti-nuclear discussions and demonstrations.
Amisha Sharma 
Apoorv Agrawal 
Arnab Ghosh