'Many people think of the mushroom clouds, but they often don’t know what happened to the people under them” How Hiroshima bombing looms large over G7 summit as nuclear tensions rise
Mr Kishida, who represents Hiroshima in parliament, formally started the G7 summit at the city’s Peace Memorial Park, dedicated to preserving the memory of 6 August, 1945, when the US dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people.
But Mr Kido was hopeful that the G7 summit would serve as an opportunity to remind world leaders of the real cost of nuclear weapons. “Because they are meeting in Hiroshima, I do have a sliver of hope that they will have positive talks and make a tiny step toward nuclear disarmament,” Mr Kido told the“I earnestly want the leaders to have a firm understanding of what the atomic bombs did to human beings. Many people think of the mushroom clouds, but they often don’t know what happened to the people under them.”
Mr Kido was five years old when he saw a flash in the sky during the Nagasaki bombing. He recalled seeing charred bodies on the streets and people begging for water with their flesh dangling.Mr Kido said survivors “won’t be around much longer” but that they all shared “a strong determination that we should never let anyone else become hibakusha and feel this pain”.
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