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Hiroshima marks 81 years since atomic bombing as mayor deplores pursuit of nuclear weapons

Survivors have expressed frustration and worry over growing support for the possession of nuclear weapons for deterrence by the international community, including Japan.

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00:02Hiroshima marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city on Thursday.
00:08The city's mayor criticized major powers for waging wars and resorting to nuclear threats.
00:14He urged them to stop justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a method of deterrence.
00:30The reason is that the victims are responsible for other countries, and the victims' actions of the victims' actions of
00:36their own.
00:40The threat of nuclear weapons is not allowed to stop the attack of nuclear weapons, and it is not allowed
00:48to stop the attack of nuclear weapons, and it is not allowed to create an attack of nuclear weapons.
00:58Prime Minister Sanayi Takaichi, who attended the memorial for the first time as Prime Minister,
01:03said she will take a realistic approach toward achieving a world where nuclear weapons are never used.
01:09The ceremony, however, comes at a time of speculation that Takaichi's government may ease its non-nuclear principles.
01:32The bombing of Hiroshima on the 6th of August in 1945 destroyed the city and killed 140,000 people.
01:40A second bomb dropped three days later and Nagasaki killed 70,000.
01:44Japan surrendered on the 15th of August, ending World War II and Japan's nearly half-century of aggression in Asia.
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