1123. The A-bombed watch was sold at the auction. 被爆時計が競売で落札される
The A-bomb watch sold for 4.7 million yen at an auction in the USA.
The watch was exposed to atomic radiation in 1946 6th of August in World War.
The hands of the watch stopped at 8:15 a.m., the time of the atomic bombing.
After the war, the watch was brought back to Britain by a soldier.
The organization ICAN said that this clock tells the moral of history and we are concerned that it is not the item to be sold in the auction.
ICAN
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
It is a treaty of the prohibition on Nuclear Weapons, and they do international Campaigns through lobbying.
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