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8:15 AM, August 6th, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan.

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 17 years ago, in 2007, on the World Wide Web.

Here is a pocket watch, stopped at 8:15am.

This pocket watch belonged to Kengo Nikawa, a 59-year-old civilian worker living in Hiroshima, Japan. A gift from his son, Kazuo Nikawa, the watch was one of his most precious belongings. It is stopped at 8:15 A.M., the time at which an atomic bomb exploded about 200 yards over his home-town, Hiroshima, Japan.

This is one of the artifacts featured today at Dulce Et Decorum Est: 2007-08-06, in memory of the American government’s deliberate massacre of about 140,000 civilians in Hiroshima 62 years ago today. As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which deliberately targeted a civilian center and killed over half of the people living in the city, remains the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of the world.

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  1. Aline Binette

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— 2015 —

  1. Discussed at antiwar.com

    70th Anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki « Antiwar.com Blog:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

  2. Discussed at www.michiganstandard.com

    70th Anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Michigan Standard:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

  3. Discussed at sheldon.liberty.me

    70th Anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Sheldon Richman - Liberty.me:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

— 2016 —

  1. Discussed at www.antiwar.com

    71th Anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Antiwar.com Blog:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

  2. Discussed at rinf.com

    71th Anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

  3. Discussed at www.michiganstandard.com

    71th Anniversary of the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Michigan Standard:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

— 2017 —

  1. Discussed at www.libertarianinstitute.org

    Truman, A-Bombs, and the Killing of Innocents | The Libertarian Institute:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

  2. Discussed at www.antiwar.com

    Truman, A-Bombs, and the Killing of Innocents – Antiwar.com Blog:

    […] Geek People’s Daily has a poignant post here. Rad says: “As far as I am aware, the atomic bombing of the Hiroshima city center, which […]

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