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平和50周年 広島・長崎平和記念 << 1995年(平成7年) 8月1日 >> 2-5-159

50th Anniversary of Peace Issued on August 1, 1995 (Heisei 7)

50th Anniversary of Peace Issued on August 1, 1995 (Heisei 7)
In August 1995, 50 years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Inter- national Conference on the World Convention on the Atomic Bombing was held in Tokyo, and three stamps were issued. The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima City at 8:00 am on August 6, 1945 (Showa 20) at the end of World War II. It is an event that used the actual battle. This is the first nuclear attack on a city in human history. The nuclear attack killed 9,166,000 of the 350,000 people in Hiroshima at the time, within four months of the bombing. Also, three days later, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki City. The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki City was the event that the U.S. military dropped the atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki at 11:00 am on August 9, and this atomic bomb was used for the second time in human history and in actual battle. The last nuclear weapon. Of the 240,000 population of Nagasaki City at that time, 74,000 died and 35% of the buildings were destroyed by the dropping of the atomic bomb.