Daily archives: 6, August 2020

Ireland has become the 41st state to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) doing so on 6 August, the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Ireland is the second European Union state to ratify the Treaty after Austria, the Holy See and San Marino have […]

On August 6 1945 the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb used in conflict on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb was called “Little Boy” and killed more than 140,000 people, with many more dying as a result of the radiation exposure and other issues arising from the […]