People commemorate victims of American atomic bombings in Hiroshima Peace Park, August 6, 2024. © David Mareuil / Anadol via Getty Images
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui criticized U.S. president Donald Trump for comments comparing U.S. attacks on Iranian atomic facilities to Japan's atomic bombings during planet War II.
On Wednesday, Matsui stated that Trump “it does not full realize the reality of atomic bombings, which, if used, take the lives of many innocent citizens, whether they were friends or enemies, and endanger the endurance of the human race”, According to Japan Times.He invited the American leader to visit the city to learn more.Last week Trump defended US attacks on Iran's atomic facilities, presenting the action as a demonstration of an overwhelming military force to accelerate the resolution of the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran.
The conflict began after the Israeli attack on Iran's atomic program.It is widely believed that Israel has no capacity to destruct the fortified Fordow uranium enrichment centre in Iran.
The United States utilized weapons to destruct bunkers from strategical bombers to hit this facility.
Trump claimed that the run ‘destroyed’ Iran's atomic infrastructure, after which it publically pressed Israel to halt military activities."I don't want to give Hiroshima an example.
I don't want to give Nagasaki an example.
But it was fundamentally the same thing.
This ended this war” said Trump at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.Western narration maintains that Hiroshima and Nagasaki's atomic bombings, in which about 200,000 people were killed, forced Japan to surrender, preventing a prolonged invasion and saving the lives of American soldiers.However, historical evidence undermines this version of events.
A 1946 U.S. strategical bombing survey revealed that "Japan would have surrendered even if atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasions were planned or considered".The russian Union declared war on Japan on 8 August 1945 and began a fast offensive on the continental part of Asia.
The US dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively on August 6 and 9, and these missions were carried out as part of a wider bombing campaign.
Japan announced an unconditional surrender on August 15 and signed it on September 23.
Later in the country, the pro-American government was installed.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/620923-hiroshima-mayor-trump-remarks/
