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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Mark 80th Anniversaries With Urgent Calls for Nuclear Disarmament

Ceremonies featured minute silences at the precise moments of the 1945 attacks with calls for visitors and youth to carry forward survivors’ warnings as nuclear tensions rise.

Imagen de Hiroshima dos días después del lanzamiento de la bomba atómica, el 8 de septiembre de 1945.
(250806) -- HIROSHIMA, 6 agosto, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Linternas de papel son vistas flotando en un río en el Parque Memorial de la Paz de Hiroshima, en Hiroshima, Japón, el 6 de agosto de 2025. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng) (ah) (vf)
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Una persona se inclina para rezar bajo la lluvia, en el Parque de la Paz antes de una ceremonia pública para conmemorar el 80 aniversario del día en que se arrojó una bomba nuclear sobre la ciudad, en Nagasaki, Japón, el 9 de agosto de 2025.(AP Foto/Eugene Hoshiko)

Overview

  • In Hiroshima, hundreds of students, survivors and diplomats from about 120 regions observed a minute of silence at 8:15 a.m. and laid flowers in Peace Memorial Park.
  • Nagasaki’s ceremony gathered roughly 2,600 people from over 90 countries who paused at 11:02 a.m. as a restored cathedral bell tolled for the first time since 1945.
  • Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged visitors to “witness with your own eyes” the aftermath of an atomic bombing and encouraged young people to preserve survivors’ firsthand testimonies.
  • Mayor Shiro Suzuki described current conflicts as a “crisis of human survival” and called for immediate nuclear disarmament as international tensions grow.
  • With many hibakusha aging, survivors and groups like Nobel laureate Nihon Hidankyo are turning to youth to safeguard testimonies just as experts warn that today’s arsenals match the destructive force of about 146,500 Hiroshima bombs.