Memorial for kids dead in Hiroshima

A NOBEL Prize-winning anti-nuclear group launched an online memorial yesterday for the 38 000 children who died in the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ahead of the 80th anniversary next month.

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It features more than 400 profiles with details of the children’s lives, “their agonising deaths and the grief of surviving family members,’ said the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) in a statement.

“By sharing their heart-wrenching stories, we hope to honour their memories and spur action for the total abolition of nuclear weapons - an increasingly urgent task given rising global tensions,” it said.

The US dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on August 6 and 9, 1945 - the only times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Japan surrendered days later.