Hiroshima officials urged world leaders Tuesday to stop relying on nuclear weapons as deterrence and take immediate action toward abolishment — not as an ideal, but to remove the risk of atomic war amid conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and rising tensions in East Asia.They commented as Hiroshima remembered its atomic bombing 79 years ago at the end of World War II.   AP News
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Mikio Saiki, a 92-year-old atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima, has begun sharing his harrowing experiences from nearly 79 years ago, a story he had kept to himself for decades. The catalyst for Saiki’s decision to speak out about the horrors of nuclear warfare is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  The Japan Times