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THE recent nuclear accident at Severodvinsk in Russia which killed at least five nuclear experts and increased local radiation levels was a reminder of how volatile nuclear material can be whether for weapons use or producing power.
The incident occurred with grim irony on August 8, exactly between the first atomic bomb drops on Japanese civilian populations by the US during World War II 74 years ago.
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, killing hundreds of thousands of people instantly and causing tens of thousands of cancer deaths in later years.
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