UK, France Attended Nagasaki Atomic Bomb 65th Anniversary Ceremony

but not the US, who sent its ambassador to Hiroshima's ceremony last week.

Delegates from 30 countries joined the United Kingdom and France, who attended the ceremony for the very first time.

Nagasaki holds 65th A-bomb memorial (8/9/2010 Press TV)

"Japan commemorates the 65th anniversary of the United States' dropping of an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days after its first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

"The ceremony started on August 9 around 11:02 a.m., the time of the 1945 bombing, in the southern city of Nagasaki, AP reported on Monday.

"Representatives from 32 countries attended the ceremony. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Nagasaki a day before the Hiroshima anniversary. However, the United States did not send a delegation to the event.

"The US destroyed Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb three days after dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the final stages of World War II.

"Around 80,000 people were killed in the Nagasaki attack in addition to the 140,000 who were killed in Hiroshima.

"Washington has never acceded to Japan's demands for an apology for the loss of thousands of innocent lives." [The article continues.]

It has always struck me as extremely ironic that the US decided to drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The city had a significant population of Christians, who survived the brutal persecution under the Tokugawa Shogunate for over 200 years. After the Meiji Restoration, the freedom of worship came finally to Nagasaki, only to be obliterated by a Christian nation.

The photos are from Wikipedia, Nagasaki before and after the bomb. Nothing left.


People in Nagasaki and Hiroshima hoped that President Obama would visit their cities after the US president won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. Their naivete is almost painful.

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