Hiroshima Day is observed in many parts of the world with special vigils and peace marches. It is held to commemorate the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.
See also radiation and World War III.
Joe Crookston\ Able Baker Charlie And Dog\ Able Baker Charlie & Dog\ Self
The Berrymans\ When Did We Have Sauerkraut?
Kamm & MacDonald - Little Boy - Into the Clouds
Utah Phillips - Enola Gay - The Telling Takes Me Home - Philo
Utah Phillips\ Enola Gay\ I've Got to Know\ AK Press
Randy Newman - Political Science - Songbooks Vol. 1 - Nonesuch
Peter Rowan - Hiroshima Mon Amour - and the Red Hot Pickers - Sugar Hill
From Rich Warren:
18. Vern Partlow: Atomic Talking Blues (3:44)
"Songs for Political Action: The People's Songs Era"
Bear Family BCD 15720-5/6 JL
19. The Weavers: I'm Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter (1:19)
(Shel Silverstein) "Wasn't That a Time" Vanguard VCD4-147/50
20. Robert Klein: Civil Defense (No Talking) (3:07) "Child of the 50's"
Brut 6001
21. Tom Lehrer: We Will All Go Together When We Go (3:29)
"The Remains of Tom Lehrer" Rhino R2 79831
22. Suzanne McDermott: The 3 Dreams of J. Robert Oppenheimer (5:49)
"Souvenir" Rosema Red RR-415 (suzannemcdermott.com)
23. Homer Harris: Atomic Bomb Blues (2:30) "News & The Blues -
Telling It Like It Is" Columbia 46217
24. Rod MacDonald: The Man Who Dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima (3:32)
"Recognition" Wind River WR4028CD (rodmacdonald.net)
25. Boiled In Lead: Brave Bombardier (2:49) (trad/Todd Menton) "Orb"
Atomic Theory ATF 1108 (boiledinlead.com)
26. Tom Lehrer: So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) (1:35)
"The Remains of Tom Lehrer" Rhino R2 79831
27. Pierce Pettis: Hiroshima Shadow Game (2:31) "Moments"
Small World SWR076 (piercepettis.com)
28. Lorna Campbell: The Sun Is Burning (2:24) (Ian Campbell)
Topic 45 rpm import
29. Anne Hills: I Come and Stand at Every Door (2:59) Appleseed 1024
(P.Seeger-James Waters/Nazim Hikmet-Jeanette Turner-Pete Seeger)
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone-The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 1"
30. Fred Small: Cranes Over Hiroshima (5:29) "No Limit" Rounder 4018
(jg.org/folk/artists/fredsmall/fred_small.html)
"The Man Who Dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima" by Rod MacDonald, off his disc, Recognition.
Jim Page\ Hiroshima-Nagasaki Russian Roulette\ Human Interesting\ Whid-Isle
Peter Rowan\ Hiroshima Mon Amour\ The Walls of Time\ Sugar Hill
Bob Dylan / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Fred Small - Cranes Over Hiroshima - NO LIMIT/Rounder
Terry Kitchen - Night of a Thousand Lanterns - THAT'S HOW IT USED TO BE /Urban Campfire
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Why Walk When You Can Fly? - STONES IN THE ROAD/Columbia
Truman Cactus \ U UTAH PHILLIPS \ I've Got to Know \ AK Press
Current Events \ JUDITH KATE FRIEDMAN \ Amaze Me \ Rubberneck
1000 Candles 1000 Cranes \ SMALL POTATOES \ Waltz of the Wallflowers \ Wind River
nikolay \ COLLEEN GERAGHTY \ Deep Ravines \ CLP
I Come & Stand at Every Door \ PETE SEEGER \ Headlines & Footnotes \ Smithsonian/Folkways
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