MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov – On August 6, 1945, a US B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped a nuclear bomb that killed about 140,000 people in Hiroshima. A second bombing followed three days later, this time on the city of Nagasaki, killing 70,000 people. The bombings caused Japan to surrender on August 15, 1945, bringing World War II to an end.
"I think that the U.S. should apologize to Japan for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unfortunately, as long as veterans from that war are alive, I don't think the government will make such a proclamation. I do think that it will happen one day," Paul Kawika Martin said.
According to Martin, the use of nuclear weapons causing large-scale civilian casualties cannot ever be justified.
"Especially with the destructive forces of a modern weapon, which is several to hundreds of times larger than those used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is no justification to use nuclear weapons that will kill mostly civilians and devastate the environment for decades," he warned.