Members of the Springfield Campaign for Non-Violence gathered on the steps of Springfield City Hall Sunday to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The committee has assembled in Court Square for the past seven years to recognize the people killed and to call for worldwide nuclear disarmament.
Within a mere flash, some 70,000 people were killed in the Japanese city the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, as the first atomic weapon was dropped in a bid to end World War II. It took a second atomic bomb to be dropped on the city of Nagasaki days later for the Japanese government to finally capitulate.
