Vigils and rallies to commemorate the dropping of the first atomic bomb are being held across Scotland.
About 140,000 people were killed in the US attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 66 years ago.
People have been gathering in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens and in Glasgow’s west end to hear speeches denouncing nuclear weapons.
Continue reading at Rallies held across Scotland to mark Hiroshima bombing
A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. Taken by photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com).
The artwork in the header, titled "JAPAN:Nuclear Power Plant," is copyright artist Tomiyama Taeko.
The photograph in the sidebar, of a nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois, is copyright photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com/)
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