Today is the international day of the "Physicians for Peace"

On the planet today is the International Day "Physicians for Peace", which is a decision of the Board of Directors of the International "International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War," held on the day of the bombing of Hiroshima. U.S. Air Force 6th August 1945 was a blow to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, for the first time in human history of nuclear weapons will be used. A nuclear strike killed 140,000 Japanese and 230,000 died as a result of the use of nuclear weapons. The vast majority of those killed were civilians. The bombing of Hiroshima was destroyed by 67% of the city. Nagasaki - only three days after the atomic bomb with plutonium loading capacity of 20 tons was dropped on another Japanese city. Ten years after this terrible tragedy of Hiroshima hosted the first world conference on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. And already in 1985, the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone was declared. International Day of the "Physicians for Peace" in a sense, and serves as a symbolic reminder of this human tragedy. The role of doctors in promoting peace and preventing war in general Finally, the doctors returned to the patient's life.