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Campaigners call for nuclear disarmament on 78th anniversary of Hiroshima bomb
Peace campaigners mark the 78th anniversary of Hiroshima in Bristol today

PEACE and anti-arms campaigners gathered across Britain today to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nuclear disarmament.

Events were organised nationwide by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) on the day of the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.

A second bomb was dropped by the United States in Nagasaki on August 9.

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