Japan Commemorates 78th Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing by Denouncing Russian Nuclear Threat

The Japanese city of hiroshima commemorated this Sunday the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing by USA after its nuclear legacy took center stage when it hosted the Group of Seven major economies summit last May.

A moment of silence was observed during the ceremony at 8:15 a.m., the exact moment the US bomber Enola Gay he dropped the bomb and it detonated over the city on August 6, 1945, killing an estimated 140,000 people.

The first Minister Fumio Kishidawho attended the event, noted that “the road to nuclear disarmament has become more dangerous due to deepening international divisions and nuclear threats from Russia».

It is crucial to reinvigorate the international drive towards a ‘world without nuclear weapons’ once againFumio KishidaPrime Minister of Japan

As a legislator whose constituency is in the city, Kishida was instrumental in bringing the leaders of the G7 to hiroshima as part of its aim to promote efforts to achieve “a world without nuclear weapons”, amid growing fears of nuclear war following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Kishida he said the visit had allowed leaders to engage with the reality of the bombing and that this direct contact was “a push toward a world without nuclear weapons.”

Among the 50,000 people who attended the commemoration of hiroshima there were representatives of 111 countries and the European Union, the highest number on record. Like last year, Russia and belarus have not been invited due to the invasion of Ukraine.

three days after hiroshima was devastated by the atomic bomb known as little boy, USA dropped a second bomb on the southwestern city of nagasaki. The Second World War ended six days later, when Japan surrendered to the allied forces.

Figures from the Japanese government at the end of March showed that there were 113,649 survivors alive officially recognized from both attacks, 5,346 less than the previous year, with an average age of more than 85 years.