Saturday was the first time Guterres attended the Hiroshima memorial in person as UN chief, with a visit last year cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp. The United States remains the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons in conflict.īut around 13,000 are now held in state arsenals worldwide, Guterres said. There are now fewer than 119,000 officially recognised survivors of the two nuclear attacks, according to government statistics from March. Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, Washington dropped a second atomic bomb on the Japanese port city of Nagasaki, killing about 74,000 people and leading to the end of World War II.

In a speech on Saturday, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui cited Leo Tolstoy, the Russian author of 'War and Peace', saying: 'Never build your happiness on the misfortune of others, for only in their happiness can you find your own.' Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, President Vladimir Putin has made thinly veiled threats hinting at a willingness to deploy tactical nuclear weapons.

The Russian ambassador was not invited to the ceremony but visited Hiroshima on Thursday to lay flowers at the memorial site. Before dawn, survivors and their relatives began to gather at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park to pay tribute to the victims.Ī silent prayer was held at 8.15 am, the moment the bomb was dropped.

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