Japan determined to rid world of nukes

Bells tolled as a solemn crowd observed a moment of silence at 8.15am local time, when the detonation turned the western Japanese city into an inferno, killing thousands instantly and leaving others to die a slow death with terrible injuries.

As a symbol of the victims’ journey to the afterlife, thousands of paper lanterns are to by released on the Motoyasu Rive at a later time, reported ITV News.

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn’t end the war immediately, on August 15th, Japan’s emperor surrendered unconditionally. “We have to continue our effort to achieve a world without nuclear weapons“.

On this day 70 years ago, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, instantly vaporizing people and structures within a mile radius of ground zero.

“The longer discussion went on, the clearer it became that they were just trampling on the constitution and its renunciation of war and military strength”, Nihon Hidankyo said in a statement. The bomb, known as “Little Boy“, that was dropped on the unsuspecting city killed at least 140,000 people who were in the city.

The bombings remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

Matsuyama and Takako Chiba, 73, both survivors of the August 6, 1945, bombing in Hiroshima, visited Baltimore as part of a trip to the United States to remember the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

“People of the world, especially leaders of nuclear armed nations, please come to Hiroshima to contemplate peace in this, a bombed city”, said Kazumi Matsui, Hiroshima’s mayor. What are the risks of nuclear war today? Two days after the first bomb was dropped, Fukuyama was attacked in an air raid as well.

The sea of people who attended the ceremony this year also included U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and representatives from more than 100 countries, including Britain, France and Russian Federation.

“In order for us to live together, we need to end the use of all nuclear weapons, the ultimate in inhumane, pure evil”, Matsui said.

The Mainichi Shinbun newspaper obtained taped footage of a meeting between the man who ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and a group of survivors suffering from the effects of radiation exposure.

China, which often emphasises its own victimisation at the hands of foreign powers, is itself gearing up to commemorate Japan’s World War II defeat, planning a massive military parade through central Beijing.