Overview

• About 55,000 people, including delegates from a record 120 countries, gathered in Hiroshima on August 6 to mark the bombing’s 80th anniversary
• With hibakusha averaging over 86 years old, organizers warn that their firsthand accounts could vanish within two decades
• Nihon Hidankyo and UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu urged stronger non-proliferation measures and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
• Germany’s Foreign Minister Wadephul declared that nuclear war can never be won and condemned Russia’s nuclear rhetoric as a threat to global security
• Commentators invoked Hiroshima’s lessons to criticize contemporary bombing of civilians in Gaza and caution against modern air campaigns