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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the International Committee of the Red Cross: A Story of the Atomic Bomb

On 6th August 1945, the world changed forever, when an American B-29 warplane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a 21-kiloton plutonium bomb detonated in the city of Nagasaki.

Around 140,000 people died instantly. This is how the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Japanese Red Cross were the first humanitarian aid on the ground.

The world today needs the promise of a future without fear of annihilation, and this promise is one step closer to becoming a reality with the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017.