quirk
08-06-2008, 08:37 AM
A massive war crime which should not have happened and which sadly has not made the rulers of the world wise up to the real potential of nuclear weapons wiping out humanity or a large part of it.
The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan was not needed as the US had broken the Japanese code and knew that they where looking for a way to surrender. I agree that dropping them was nothing more than a warning to the USSR.
The mayor of Hiroshima calls on the next US president to destroy nuclear weapons which pose the main "threats" to humans' survival.
About 45,000 Japanese paid tributes to the memory of those lost in the world's first atomic-bomb attack on Hiroshima, AFP reported.
The people led by Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda observed minutes of silence and prayed for the 140,000 souls who vanished in a matter of seconds when the US dropped the first A-bomb on the city on August 6, 1945.
Speaking at the A-bomb dome memorial, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said that the United States has frequently rejected Japan's initiative to abolish nuclear weaponry worldwide.
He also added that the world should not "underestimate" the effects of such weapons and asked the incoming US president to "listen conscientiously" to the world citizens who do not want a nuclear Earth.
The second US A-bomb targeted Nagasaki, another Japanese city, just three days after the Hiroshima attack on August 6, 1945, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65753§ionid=351020406
The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan was not needed as the US had broken the Japanese code and knew that they where looking for a way to surrender. I agree that dropping them was nothing more than a warning to the USSR.
The mayor of Hiroshima calls on the next US president to destroy nuclear weapons which pose the main "threats" to humans' survival.
About 45,000 Japanese paid tributes to the memory of those lost in the world's first atomic-bomb attack on Hiroshima, AFP reported.
The people led by Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda observed minutes of silence and prayed for the 140,000 souls who vanished in a matter of seconds when the US dropped the first A-bomb on the city on August 6, 1945.
Speaking at the A-bomb dome memorial, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said that the United States has frequently rejected Japan's initiative to abolish nuclear weaponry worldwide.
He also added that the world should not "underestimate" the effects of such weapons and asked the incoming US president to "listen conscientiously" to the world citizens who do not want a nuclear Earth.
The second US A-bomb targeted Nagasaki, another Japanese city, just three days after the Hiroshima attack on August 6, 1945, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65753§ionid=351020406