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THREAD: I just put out a report on @dwnews showing that the wrong footage has been used to portray the atomic attack on Hiroshima for decades. #Hiroshima75 #Nagasaki75 #verification

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My research started when I was doing a report on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and I found this in the Getty archives Image
Obviously, those are the same mushroom cloud. And the more I looked, the more TV and online reports I found conflating the two: CNN, France24, even us at DW.
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Today is the 75th anniversary of the bombing of #Hiroshima.

It was the 1st time a nuclear weapon was used in anger & it left a searing impression on the world.

But that impression is fading, and with it the political consensus to address arms control. #Hiroshima75 <thread>
Eleven United States Senators were born before Hiroshima.

Of those, only five were older than 5 years old when the bomb was dropped.

Of the five who were old enough to remember that event, only one, @SenFeinstein, is a champion for non-proliferation.
None of the four Republican Senators old enough to remember Hiroshima voted in support of New START, the signature nuclear arms control agreement between the US and Russia.

New START is up for renewal in the beginning of 2021, and the negotiations are taking place right now.
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[THREAD] ~ 1st Nuclear Test Explosion of NWS.

1)
Date: 16 july,1945
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Name: Trinity
Location: New Mexico

2)
Date: 29 August, 1949
Country: Soviet Union
Name: First Lightning
Location: Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

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3)
Date: 3 October, 1952
State: United Kingdom
Name: Hurricane
Location: Montebello islands off the coast of Western Australia

4)
13 Feb, 1960
State: France
Name:  “Gerboise Bleue” (Blue Desert Rat)
Location of Test: Sahara Desert

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5)
Date: 16 October, 1964
Country: China
Name: 596
Location: Lop Nor testing site in Xinjiang Province

6)
Date: 18 May, 1974
Country: India
Name: Smiling Buddha
Location: Pokhran Rajasthan Desert

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#OnThisDay at 08:15 in 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Today we remember the lives lost and vow to double down on our campaign for a nuclear free world.

Join the Peace Wave using the hashtag #Hiroshima75 and tell the world never again.

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Emma Collinson remembers #Hiroshima75 Image
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It's 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and we are forgetting that it was as much of a watershed moment as #COVID19.
35 years after I visited the Peace Park, the memory still fills me with a sense of urgency.
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#Hiroshima75
I wrote this for the 70th anniversary.
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The Nobel to @ICANN apart, that we still need to talk about nuclear disarmament says something about our unwillingness to learn.

#Hiroshima75
Nuclear disarmament is a feminist issue, and this is why.
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#Hiroshima75 #womenandpeace #FemSecSt
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75th anniversary of the Trinity atomic bomb test! Some wondeful stories about how the Manhattan Project influenced science & culture.
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What would have happened had Trinity test failed? Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Soviet declaration of war & invasion of Manchuria, US rejection of the conditional surrender offer, an abortive coup by Japanese officers all took place in the same week!
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/07/16/wha… Image
Hasegawa's "Racing the Enemy" (based on US, Soviet & Japanese archives) was eyeopening. Stalin accelerated plans to invade Japan as soon as Truman told him about Trinity test in Postdam. Both atomic bomb & Soviet invasion about securing terms of surrender.
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