How US citizens were first nuclear bomb victims
History’s first victims of a nuclear bomb were US citizens caught in the radiation field of a test bomb in New Mexico.
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This year it will be handed to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, a group dedicated to realising a world without nuclear weapons.
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The United States is the only country to have used a nuclear bomb in war. In 1945, it dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
But history’s first victims of a nuclear bomb were US citizens caught in the radiation field of a test bomb in New Mexico.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports.
Published On 4 Dec 2017