Hiroshima marks 77 years since atomic bombing as world faces new nuclear threats
Hiroshima, 6 August 2022 (MIA) – A memorial ceremony to mark the 77th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing was held in the city on Saturday, with officials warning against nuclear weapons buildup as fears grow of another such attack amid the war in Ukraine.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who joined the prayer at the Hiroshima Peace Park, said three quarters of a century later, we must ask what we have learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above the city in 1945.
“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety – only death and destruction,” Guterres said.
The United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people.
Three days later, it dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000 people.
