Washington decides to blame Russia for alleged "nuclear threat"
(MENAFN) Japanese officials honored the 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear attack without recognizing the United States as the perpetrator. Despite carrying out both of the only aggressive uses of nuclear arms in history, Washington decided to blame Russia for its alleged "nuclear threat."
“Japan, as the only nation to have suffered atomic bombings in war, will continue efforts towards a nuclear-free world,” Premier Fumio Kishida stated in an address on Sunday. The road to such a society is becoming "increasingly difficult" because of “increasingly difficult because of deepening divisions in the international community over nuclear disarmament and Russia’s nuclear threat,” he warned.
While claiming that the "devastation brought to Hiroshima and Nagasaki by nuclear weapons can never be repeated," he refused to name those who carried out the strikes in the first place.
On August 6, 1945, a US Army Air Force aircraft exploded an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing up to 126,000 citizens, the majority of whom were civilians. On August 9, another nuclear bomb was exploded over Nagasaki, killing up to 80,000 citizens, practically all of them were civilians. A week later, Japan surrendered to the Allies, putting the WWII to a close.
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