London, UK. 06th Aug, 2017. Bruce Kent (CND Vice President) speaking at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom. On 6 August 1967 a cherry tree was planted in the square by Camden Council in memory of the victims of the bombing. Since then an annual ceremony has been held around the tree to remember the attack. The attack took place at 8.15am, 6 August 1945, when the Enola Gay Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb, the first use of the weapon in history. C
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Bruce Kent (CND Vice President) speaking at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom. On 6 August 1967 a cherry tree was planted in the square by Camden Council in memory of the victims of the bombing. Since then an annual ceremony has been held around the tree to remember the attack. The attack took place at 8.15am, 6 August 1945, when the Enola Gay Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb, the first use of the weapon in history. The bomb is estimated to have killed between 100, 000 and 180, 000 people, and devastated the city. Hiroshima was chosen because of it’s significance as a port, an industrial center and because of a major military headquarters being located there.