Hiroshima remembers the victims of the bombh

August 10th, 2010

Hiroshima remembers the victims of the bomb on the 65th anniversary of the launch.

The Japanese city of Hiroshima on Thursday remembered the 65th anniversary of the launch of the first atomic bomb with a call for nuclear disarmament at a ceremony in which, for the first time U.S. officially participated and United Nations Secretary General.

65 years ago in Hiroshima, the first bomb was released atomicaAdemas the U.S. ambassador in Japan, John Ross, also attended the anniversary, tera gold, for the first time representatives of the United Kingdom and France, allies in World War II and now nuclear powers, and the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, with diplomats from 70 other countries.

At 0815 local time (2315 GMT Thursday), the same in which the U.S. plane Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb in 1945, an intense silence fell among the 55,000 people who,, tera gold, according to the local agency Kyodo, gathered in the Peace Park in Hiroshima.

The park occupies the yard left by the detonation of the uranium bomb "Little Boy" that devastated Hiroshima, a city that was then with some 350,000 inhabitants, according to the current load.

USA, France and the UK, present in the ceremoniaCerca than 80,000 people died instantly, ffxiv gil, and the life to the dead end of 1945 amounted to about 140,000, although there were many more victims of radiation in subsequent years.

Three days after that attack, the U.S. launched a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki which caused 74 000 deaths at the end of that year, led Japan to surrender and ended World War II.

Objective: to nuclear weapons

In a ceremony today marks 65 years since the tragedy, the mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, claim that Japan abandon the "nuclear umbrella" of the U.S., which after World War II became its main security ally.

About 140,000 people died from bombs nuclearesAnte an audience that included Koizumi, Naoto Kan, Akiba paid tribute to the dead and the "hibakusha", as known to the survivors of atomic disaster, that "without understanding the reason, were involved in a hell beyond your worst nightmares. "

The demand of the mayor's response was prompt Koizumi, who after the ceremony I say that the U.S. nuclear protection "are still necessary" for Japan, but at the same time assure that the country has a moral responsibility to lead the fight against atomic weapons.

The U.S. ambassador attended "to express respect for all victims of World War II," according to a statement from the embassy in Tokyo, which stressed that the U.S. and Japan "share the common goal of advancing the vision of President Obama a world without nuclear weapons. "

The UN sought to set 2012 as the year of entry into force of the Treaty which bans all testing nuclearesTambien reiterated its commitment to the abolition of atomic weapons the UN secretary general, who expressed his hope to celebrate in 2020 the existence of a world atomicas.Ban nonthreatening, who on Thursday visited Nagasaki, suggested setting 2012 as the year of entry into force of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Tests (CTBT), signed in 1996 but still awaiting the ratification of 44 nations, including the United States and China.

In addition, he supportedconvene periodic meetings of the Security Council to discuss "the situation of our promises and commitments" regarding nuclear weapons.

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