TOKYO, March 28. /TASS/. Russia’s Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin believes that Tokyo should address calls of the inadmissibility of the use of nuclear weapons to Washington.
"In the presence of the US ambassador, Japan is discussing the inadmissibility of the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima attempting to implicate Russia artificially and without reasons," the statement by the Russian envoy reads released on his Telegram channel on Monday. "Such a call would be a lot more logical if it was addressed to the head of the US diplomatic mission directly."
The Russian ambassador to Japan recalled that Washington "was inclined towards reckless nuclear adventures", citing as an example the use of depleted uranium during the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Galuzin also noted that the American diplomat "did not find it necessary to apologize to the people of Japan for the worst war crime by his country on August 6, 1945, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima."
The US Armed Forces carried out the first-ever atomic bombing in history, striking the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki towards the tail end of World War II. On August 6, 1945, the US Air Force’s Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, exploding with the energy equivalent of between 13,000 and 18,000 tonnes of TNT. Three days later, the US also bombed Nagasaki. In total, between 90,000 and 166,000 people died in Hiroshima and between 60,000 and 80,000 in Nagasaki. The bombings were justified as a way to accelerate the capitulation of the Empire of Japan. These attacks are the sole instance of nuclear weapons ever being used in a military conflict in the history of humanity. The US still rejects shouldering any moral responsibility for the attacks by claiming that the bombings were a military necessity.