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Hiroshima, 67 Years Later

Communities across the world remember and agitate for changes to nuclear regulations.
Reuters

Sixty-seven years ago, America dropped its atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Yesterday, communities in Japan and around the world came together to remember and reflect. In Hiroshima, Shigeaki Mori and Clifton Truman Daniel met for the first time. Mori was seven-years-old when the bomb was dropped. Daniel is the grandson of President Harry Truman. According to Stars and Stripes:

Meanwhile, over at In These Times, Noam Chumsky contemplates the current nuclear threats, wondering if Iran or India might be the next Hiroshima. "Progress is unlikely unless there is mass public support in the West," he writes. "Failure to grasp the opportunity will, once again, lengthen the grim shadow that has darkened the world since that fateful August 6."