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Hiroshima marks bomb anniversary
 Hiroshima, August 6 (MIA) - The Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.
Some 45,000 people, including Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, gathered at a memorial to the dead within sight of the A-bomb dome, a former exhibition hall burned to a skeleton by the bomb's incinerating heat.
They stood up and offered silent prayers at 8:15 am, the exact moment in 1945 when a single US bomb instantly killed more than 140,000 people and fatally injured tens of thousands of others with radiation or horrific burns.
Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, the United States dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, which killed another 70,000 people in the southern port city.
Japan surrendered in World War II on August 15. The nation has since been officially pacifist and turned into one of the closest US allies, hosting more than 40,000 US troops.
Dozens of atomic bomb survivors and activists gathered in Nagasaki this week to protest against the arrival of a US nuclear-powered submarine, just days after it emerged another vessel may have leaked a small amount of radiation earlier this year.
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