nuclear weapons buildup and as fears grow of another such attack amid Russia’s war on Ukraine.“Nuclear weapons are nonsense.
They guarantee no safety _ only death and destruction,” said U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who joined the prayer at the Hiroshima Peace Park.“Three quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945,” he said.
Remembering Canada’s Pacific role during the Second World War, 75 years later The United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug.
6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people. It dropped a second bomb three days later on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000.