INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
mark the American nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima that killed 140,000 civilians
confront the reality that nuclear threats now being voiced by certain policymakers reveal the folly of nuclear deterrence theory," Hiroshima
killing 200,000 civilians in the cruelest way possible really aimed at ending the Second World War because Japan refused to surrender or
were the atomic bombs dropped in a warning to the former Soviet Union?Experts say the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and three days
later on Nagasaki was unjustified from a military standpoint and that it was a political act to frighten the Soviet Union.Many United States
political leaders, at the time, were firmly opposed to the bombardment and saw it as a very reckless move that would have long-term
violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) with AUKUS scheme.On March 14, 2023, the Guardian said AUKUS represents a violation of the NPT
fissile material utilized for non-explosive military use, like naval propulsion, to be exempt from inspections and monitoring by the UN
risking a nuclear conflict by provoking another nuclear-armed state.The same can be said about North Korea, with Washington militarily
harassing Pyongyang and risking a catastrophe in East Asia.Meanwhile, the United States has been shielding Israel, its top proxy in West
Asia, which has 200 to 300 nuclear weapons and the biggest source of insecurity in the region.The regime, which has invaded or violated the
territory of many regional states and refused to sign the NPT, enjoys the full backing of the United States.This is while Washington accuses
nuclear program is peaceful
accusations against the Islamic Republic to scare the West Asia region and beyond.The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as pointed out by
"World leaders have visited this city, seen its monuments, spoken with its brave survivors, and emerged emboldened to take up the cause of
nuclear disarmament," Guterres said in remarks read by a UN representative
"More should do so, because the drums of nuclear war are beating once again."United States President Joe Biden, ironically, was in
apology at the gathering for the nuclear attacks, despite Japanese officials repeatedly calling on Washington to do so
He did visit the Hiroshima Memorial Museum, which critics branded as a publicity stunt.The museum includes the remains of the Hiroshima
Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, the only building left standing after the United States nuclear attack.The file footage of people
walking past destroyed buildings after the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima in 1945, along with the rubble in the flattened city
will never go away.One atomic bomb survivor, Teruko Yahata, recalled the horror this year at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, saying "at that
moment, and all of a sudden, the entire sky flashed and was illuminated in bluish-white, as if the heavens had become one huge, fluorescent
I immediately fell to the ground and lost consciousness."Pointing to herself, aged three, in a family photo taken in 1940, she recalled her
mother saying "'Let's die together, while we're still together.' My mother pulled me from the ruins and began to pull futons and bedding
from the cupboard."Yahata, her voice breaking as she recalls the morning of August 6, 1945, also said "I had this very vague dream of
wanting to be able to communicate in English, in my own voice, my own words, the destructive power of the atomic bomb and what I remember
experiencing that day, the horror, the sadness.""I studied by looking things up in the dictionary, like, 'oh, so that's how you say
I used a manual to put in phonetic symbols, I listened to my teacher's intonation on a tape recording
After I got the (English) translated script, my dream became a goal
weighed, saying "In my opinion, I think that pretty much everybody should come and talk to a survivor, especially our world leaders, to know
They are weapons that can destroy mankind
I want them to strongly feel that these are terrible things and that they have to be abolished.""The world leaders will all come to G7 with
the ideal of abolishing nuclear weapons
I want the leaders who come to be able to take specific action and not just have ideals or release a resolution
I want them to take the first concrete step (towards nuclear weapon abolishment)."Yahata is what is known in Japan as a "hibakusha" - a
survivor of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
She was 8 years old when the first atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" was dropped by the United States B-29 warplane Enola Gay in her
city.The nuclear bomb that obliterated the city and killed approximately 140,000 out of an estimated population of 350,000, with thousands
more dying later of injuries and radiation-related illness, is perhaps more terrifying that the United States refuses to accept the
devastation it caused.As of the end of March 2022, there were only 39,950 United States atomic bomb survivors known to still be in
