Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned on the anniversary of the victims of the U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki about the "nuclear threats from Russia," ignoring the fact that Washington killed hundreds of thousands of his citizens with nuclear weapons. Kishida reminded of "the hundreds of thousands of souls lost to a single atomic bomb in Hiroshima" and the tragedy that turned the city into a scorched land, without mentioning who caused this tragedy. Instead, he referred to Russia, which he claimed "threatens with nuclear weapons and makes the path to a nuclear-free world more difficult."
For his part, the governor of Hiroshima also began his remarks during the ceremonies by mentioning "nuclear threats from Russia" and the nuclear and missile programs of North Korea, but he did not mention or refer to the country that dropped the atomic bomb on the city. He emphasized the "necessity to abandon nuclear weapons," stating that "the hostilities in Ukraine began not because Ukraine does not possess nuclear weapons, but because Russia possesses them."
On August 6, 1945, by order of U.S. President Harry Truman, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb weighing over 4.5 tons called Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima, targeting the Aioi Bridge, one of 81 bridges connecting seven branches in the delta of the Ota River, with the ground zero established at 1,980 feet. Subsequently, the bomb Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9. These were the only attacks using nuclear weapons in history, deemed meaningless, as they were used after the end of the war and Japan's declaration of surrender to the Allies.
The nuclear attack resulted in the deaths of 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, with half of this number dying on the same day as the attack, while hundreds of thousands suffered life-altering injuries and diseases that have been passed down through generations of Japanese people to this day.
