Biden will not apologize for dropping nuclear bombs

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During his visit to Hiroshima, Japan, US President Joe Biden (80) will not apologize for the US use of nuclear weapons in the city in August 1945. Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan (46), made this in advance. the flight to Japan clear.

The president will attend a wreath-laying ceremony and other commemorative events along with other G7 leaders. “But this is not a bilateral moment from his point of view,” Sullivan stressed. “He comes as one of the G7 leaders to pay tribute.”

The US military dropped an atomic bomb on the center of Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945, destroying much of the city. An estimated 70,000 residents died immediately, about 70,000 to 80,000 over the following months. Three days later, the Americans dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. They were the first nuclear weapons attacks in the history of war and the only ones to date.

Nuclear attack ended World War II

Biden is only the second US president to visit Hiroshima – after Barack Obama (61) in May 2016. During his historic visit, Obama promoted a world without nuclear weapons and met with survivors of the nuclear disaster. Obama made no apology for dropping the bomb. Biden was also not expected to do so. Many Americans still view the nuclear strike as justified because they believe it led to Japan’s surrender, ending World War II.

Against the background of Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine and the nuclear threats from Moscow, the fact that the seven leading democratic economic powers (G7) will hold their summit in Hiroshima this year is highly symbolic. (SDA)

Source: Blick