First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, pointed out that UN Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking on the day of commemoration of the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima, did not mention the country responsible for the tragedy.
In his speech, Guterres called on the world community to never forget what happened and emphasized that “nuclear weapons have no place on our planet”. “During the Cold War, schoolchildren would hide under their desks. [из-за угрозы бомбардировки]but world leaders cannot escape their responsibilities. I have a simple objection to them – give up the option of using nuclear weapons forever, ”he said.
“Dear Secretary General, the world should never forget that this crime was committed by the United States, the only country that used the atomic bomb against civilians. Without any military need. It would have been correct if you had stated this in your explanations,” he said.
“Washington Killed Hundreds of Thousands”
State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin also decided today to remember Washington’s responsibility in the nuclear disaster. According to him, August 6 and 9 (the days when the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) should be “days of repentance” for Americans for their crimes.
“Washington has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians to show its power and frighten the whole world. The USA remains the only state on the planet to use nuclear weapons, ”Wrote Volodin Telegram.
“Throughout their history, they based their policy on colonial principles: they destroyed, killed, lived at the expense of other countries. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine.
“They don’t think it’s aggression”
Academician Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security of the Russian Academy of Sciences registeredHe said the United States still does not recognize the bombing of civilians in Japanese cities as a war crime.
“They don’t think it’s an act of aggression. According to them, the attack was carried out by Japan at Pearl Harbor, and all this was acts of retaliation, as well as strategic bombing of European cities by British and American aircraft, ”the statement said.
This may be “too much” repetition, as it is “the central part of current US nuclear doctrine, which includes the use of nuclear weapons,” according to the expert.
He believes that in the event of a direct conflict between Russia and NATO, the use of nuclear weapons is possible in case of further escalation of the Ukrainian crisis.
“Of course no one will use it. On the contrary, this is the last measure, but this is not excluded, ”said Arbatov.
Atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki It was carried out in the last phase of World War II and is the only example of the war use of nuclear weapons in history. The Little Boy bomb (“Kid”), with 13 thousand tons of TNT equivalent, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, destroying about 70% of the city, killing 80,000 people. Three days later, the Fat Man (“Fat Man”) bomb, equivalent to 21,000 tons of TNT, was dropped on Nagasaki, wiping out 50% of the metropolis from the face of the earth. About 70,000 people fell victim to the attack. More than 180 thousand people subsequently fell ill with radiation sickness. On August 15, Japan announced its surrender.
Exactly 70 years after the tragedy, US President Harry Truman’s grandson – Daniel Clifton Truman – declaration“His grandfather considered it the right decision to drop bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the rest of his life.” By giving this order he “saved the lives of many Americans” and stopped the war. Truman Jr. says it’s unlikely that the United States will apologize for this.