This August 9 marks the 78th anniversaryof nuclear attack that devastated the city Nagasaki. An atomic bomb dropped in 1945, just three days after the attack on Hiroshimawhose anniversary will also be celebrated this Sunday.
In it, the city’s mayor urged politicians to abandon the idea of nuclear weapons as a deterrent. These two attacks by the United States contributed to the surrender of Japan and the United States at the time End of World War II.
Ceremony marking the presence of a typhoon
The ceremony, which normally takes place in front of the Statue of Peace near the hypocenter of the blast, was moved to the Nagasaki Dejima Messe Conference Center for the first time since 1963, amid concern from attendees Impact of a typhoon.
The approach to Khanunnow converted to severe tropical stormhas again caused serious disruption to air and rail traffic in southwest Japan today, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidawho was unable to travel to the city for this reason, sent a video message saying that “there is some disagreement about this in the international community.” nuclear disarmamentprimarily because of the Russian nuclear threat.
Kishida said it is important to build on the momentum of last May’s G7 summit in Hiroshima, the first city to be bombed with a nuclear weapon, to advance that disarmament.
Minute of silence and flower donation in honor of the victims
As in previous years, one meeting was held today Offering of flowers and water Memorial to the Victims, held in memory of the people who suffered internal and external burns in the blast and who desperately asked the rest of the survivors for water to quench their thirst.
In addition, as usual, a minute of silence exactly at the time of the bomb explosion, at 11:02 am, in an action attended by “Hibakusha”, survivors of the atomic bomb, the ravages of war and the effects of radiation.
400,000 people died after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An estimated 40,000 people died when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, three days earlier about 70,000 in Hiroshima, followed by tens of thousands more by the end of the year from the effects of radiation.
So far it is estimated that some 400,000 people lost their lives in both cities by the attack or its consequences.