Remembering The 74 Thousand Who Died, Japan Marks 77th Anniversary Of Nagasaki
By D N Singh
Today, i.e on Tuesday Japan commemorates the 77th anniversary of the catastrophic bombing of Nagasaki during the Second World War. When the entire world was shocked by an incident which had impacted the health and well being of generations.
It was nothing but a hegemonic outburst of a nation which sidestepped all the human recourse available and avoid such terrifying devastation of untold number of people and other living beings. An impact that lasted for few generations and still does.
People of those whose pleads and urges failed to melt the attacker nation, America, the same survivors still pray. And they still remember with their eyes moist the 74,000 who were killed by the tyrannic craze to kill a civilisation.
Officials and dignitaries from more than 80 nations were present at the ceremony, along with surtyrannic crazevivors and relatives of the victims who had gathered from early in the morning to offer prayers.
At 11.02 a.m., a moment’s silence was observed as at this time on August 9, 1945, a US B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium-core atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, killing around 74,000 people in Nagasaki by the end of that year.
Over a one-year period through the end of July, Nagasaki confirmed the deaths of 3,160 atomic bomb survivors, with its list now officially recognizing 192,310 people as victims of the atomic bombing.
The atomic bombing of Nagasaki followed the one dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, forcing Japan to surrender.
At the ceremony, Nagasaki Mayor Taue Tomihisa stressed that the nuclear states hold a particular responsibility due to the non-proliferation treaty, and a concrete process for nuclear arms reductions must be shown.
In his address, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan is committed to pursuing a world without nuclear weapons.
