“Japan knows better than any other country on Earth the brutal cost of nuclear carnage.
But almost eight decades after the burning of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons still pose a clear and present threat,” he was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
In 2023, Guterres, in a message about the victims of the Hiroshima bombing, did not name the country responsible for their deaths.
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States launched nuclear strikes on Japan.
The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed.
Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians, died, and many local residents died from exposure to radiation for decades.