Nagasaki has warned this Saturday about the growing risk of a nuclear war and has urged the international community to advance atomic disarmament so that this Japanese city is ‘the last in history in suffering a nuclear bombing’, in the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of that attack. The town of Southwest of Japan has celebrated a ceremony to honor on August 9, 1945 ,. It is estimated that the accumulated figure of deceased by both bombings and their sequelae amounts to 400,000.
Japanese authorities have participated in the ceremony and who have urged the world to learn from the horrors that Nagasaki suffered to ensure that they do not repeat themselves, before representatives of 94 countries and regions.
“This existential crisis that humanity is going through is an imminent risk for each of those who inhabit the earth,” said the mayor of Nagasaki, Shiro Suzuki, in his statement for peace, read during the ceremony, where he has also warned of a world caught in a “vicious circle of confrontation and fragmentation.”
Suzuki, a descendant of survivors to the bomb, has urged world leaders to define a specific plan to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, and highlighted the global awareness work performed by the organization of the organization of Hibakusha Nihon Hidankyo, .
“To the Hibakusha They do not have much time left, ”said the mayor about the diminishing number and the elderly of the survivors.“ That is why Nagasaki has pledged to continue spreading his message around the world, to get us to be the last city in the history that suffered an atomic bombing ”.
Along the same lines, the Japanese prime minister, Shigeru ishiba, has warned of the “growing global division” and the “most severe security situation” 80 years after the bombardment of the city.
“Japan, as the only nation that has suffered nuclear attacks, is determined to maintain the three non -nuclear principles and lead the efforts for a world free of atomic weapons,” said the president, who adds that Tokyo “will promote realistic and practical initiatives” in that direction.
The ceremony took place in the Nagasaki Peace Park, located next to the epicenter of the explosion caused by the bomb, and during the same one has saved a minute of silence at 11.02 (4.02, Spanish peninsular time), exact time in which the Plutonium device detonated.
“Suddenly an orange light flooded everything, I went to the ground and felt how the bodies of my classmates fell on me,” said Hiroshi Nishioka, who was 13 years old and was in school at the time of the explosion.
“The bodies of my companions protected me from the rain of broken crystals, and all covered with blood ended,” said this survivor to the bomb and member of the aforementioned Nihon Hidankyo.
As the classroom, the Hibakusha He contemplated “a large column of fire” in the place where the city was previously located, and then, which seemed to him “a solar eclipse by the gigantic cloud of smoke and ash,” as he said in his speech in the act. “Atomic pumps should never be re -used, because if that happens, it will be the end of the world,” Nishioka warned during the ceremony.
Last year’s act, which broke record with the participation of 100 countries and regions, was marked by the controversy by the decision of the city of, which led to the ambassadors of the United States and other members of the group of the seven boycote the event. This year, the city has opted for a more inclusive approach, sending invitations to all nations with diplomatic representation in Japan.
the mayor of Nagasaki urged the Japanese government to sign the Treaty to prohibit UN nuclear weapons (TPAN) and urged him to opt for a security policy that does not depend on US nuclear deterrence.
Tokyo has not adhered to the aforementioned treaty since its full application would collide with the national policy to depend on the nuclear umbrella of its security ally, United States.
The US launched the first nuclear attack in history about the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and three days later launched a second atomic bomb over Nagasaki, which led to Japan capitulation on August 15.
