Cuba remembers the vile US atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Havana, August 6.- Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, recalled the arrival today on the 80th anniversary of the vile US dropping of the atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Through his account on the social network X, the head of Cuban diplomacy emphasized that this genocide was the first time that humanity saw the serious damage that this weapon can cause and, since then, it has lived in permanent threat from those who intend to use it.

The US atomic bombing of Hiroshima caused the deaths of approximately 70,000 people, and a similar number died during the following five years from injuries related to the device.

Furthermore, it is estimated that 77 percent of these deaths were from burns, 16 percent from the explosion, and 7 percent from radiation.

Just three days later, on August 9, 1945, the attacking army dropped a second nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, destroying an area of 7.7 square kilometers. According to records, the power of the detonation left 40 percent of the city in ruins.

Hundreds of people were suffering in agony, unable to receive any medical attention, recalled Terumi Tanaka, a Nagasaki survivor. (Text and photo: PL)