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GJGCA

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Thu Aug 7, 2025, 03:34 PM Aug 2025

CBS News: Photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and today

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiroshima-nagasaki-1945-2025-photos-atomic-bomb/

Today there are nine nuclear-armed nations—the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, North Korea, India, Pakistan and Israel—and fear of nuclear war is once again on the rise, thanks to heightened regional tensions in the Middle East and the continuing war in Ukraine.

On Wednesday, at a ceremony marking 80 years since the bombing, Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui said that those conflicts "threaten to topple the peacebuilding frameworks so many have worked so hard to build"
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CBS News: Photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and today (Original Post) GJGCA Aug 2025 OP
Slow motion (18 months) bomb in 2025 Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #1
This thread is not about Gaza. murielm99 Aug 2025 #2
The OP EXPLICITLY mentions the Middle East, and the Hiroshima mayor implicitly refers to it. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #3
Start your own thread if you want to murielm99 Aug 2025 #4

Bernardo de La Paz

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3. The OP EXPLICITLY mentions the Middle East, and the Hiroshima mayor implicitly refers to it.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 04:36 PM
Aug 2025

GJGCA wrote:

thanks to heightened regional tensions in the Middle East


The mayor of Hiroshima said:
those conflicts "threaten to topple the peacebuilding frameworks so many have worked so hard to build"

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