A WOMAN is calling for others to join her in Oxford to remember 75 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Rene Gill, from Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, will be in Bonn Square on Thursday between 11am and noon with a flag and leaflets.
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The US bombing killed 140,000 people in the Japanese city.
It was followed by a second atomic attack on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, which killed another 70,000.
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