Officials attend the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

In Japan, a silent prayer was held in Japan on Wednesday morning, as it celebrated 80 years since the United States launched an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony on Wednesday, along with officials from all over the world and the mayor of the city, Kazumi Matsui.

Matsui warned of a global “accelerating tendency to military accumulation … (s) the idea that nuclear weapons are essential for national defense”, saying that it was “grossly neglect (of) the lessons that the international community had to learn from the tragedies of history.”

World War II ended with Japan’s broadcast after the bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The bombs killed over 200,000 people – some of the immediate explosion and others from radiation disease and burns.

The heritage of weapons continues to pursue the survivors today.

“My father was badly burned and blinded by the blast. His skin hung from his body – he couldn’t even hold my arm,” Hiroshima Shingo’s survival told BBC. He was six years old when the bomb hit his city, kills his father and two younger siblings.

D -n Teto has been sharing his story With a group of students in Hiroshima who turn their memories of tragedy into art.

In 2024, Nihon Hidankio, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to save the world of nuclear weapons.

In Wednesday’s speech, Mayor Matsui said the contract for the non -proliferation of nuclear penetration, which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, is “on the verge of dysfunctionality.”

He also called on the Japanese government to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, an international agreement prohibiting nuclear weapons that came into force in 2021.

More than 70 countries have ratified the treaty, but nuclear forces such as the US and Russia have opposed it, pointing to the function of deterrence of nuclear arsenals.

Japan also rejected such a ban, arguing that its security is intensified by US nuclear weapons.

The nuclear question is dividing in Japan. There were small protests on the streets leading to the Mir Mir Mero Park to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Satoshi Tanaka, another survivor of an atomic bomb that has undergone numerous cancers of radiation exposure, said the seeing of the bloodshed in Gaza and Ukraine today is provoking its own sufferings.

“Seeing the mountains of the ruins, the destroyed cities, the children and the women who run into panic, all this brings back memories of what I went through,” he told the BBC. “We live with nuclear weapons that could erase humanity many times.”

“The most urgent priority is to push the leaders of nuclear armed countries. People around the world need to become even more resentful, raise their voices more strongly, and take enormous action.”