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On a more serious note, today marks 65 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit by atomic bombs (6th and 9th August 1945 respectively) as the Second World War came to an end.

Having been declared a Nuclear Free city in 1980, Manchester soon developed links with the two Japanese cities and at 10:40am, a two minute silence took place in city centre. Led by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Mark Hackett, he described it as “one of the saddest anniversaries of the 20th Century”. Over 200,000 people were killed in the immediate aftermath and it is thought that over 400,000 more have died since, and continue to die, as a result of the two nuclear bombs.

As a nation, I can’t help but think that we have become complacent – accepting death as a result of war or civil unrest or even terrorist attacks as part of everyday life. But it is moments and opportunities like this that help us to focus our minds on what has happened in history; offering a period of reflection on the deaths of those ordinary and extraordinary men, women and children.

Posted on 09.08.10

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