To My Friends

Thursday, August 9

Dialogue is the most certain course to achieve eternal peace.
Friendship is the very force that can move an era.
The SGI's solidarity is indeed a great hope (for humankind)!

* On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 200,000 civilians and heavily damaging 80% of the city. Three days later, on August 9, the second atomic bomb hit Nagasaki, Japan. Again, more than one hundred thousand people were killed or wounded in a single moment. In the following months, an estimated 60,000 more people died from injuries or radiation poisoning. Since 1945, several thousand more victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have died of illnesses caused by the bomb.

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