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'War can’t be solution': Visit to Nagasaki museum leaves Indian footballers speechless

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NILESH BHATTACHARYA
'War can’t be solution': Visit to Nagasaki museum leaves Indian footballers speechless
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Young Indian footballers visiting Japan for a development league toured the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. The experience left the players and coaches reflecting on the horrors of war and the importance of resilience.

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KURATE (JAPAN): It’s the kind of visit that makes people pause and ponder, offering a deeply moving glimpse into one of humankind’s darkest chapters.A group of young Indian footballers, who are here for the Reliance Football Development League (RFDL)’s exposure trip to Japan, were left with a sobering experience after paying a visit to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Saturday. During the final days of World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan -- "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on August 6 in 1945, and "Fat Man" on Nagasaki three days later -- completely destroying the two cities and killing hundreds of thousands of people. “When I was a student, I had read about this tragedy of the grandest scale.

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