US Dropped Bombs on Japan to Make Tokyo ‘Satellite Ally’ - Russian Official

© REUTERS / US ArmyAn atomic cloud billows above Hiroshima city following the explosion of the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare in Hiroshima, in this handout photo taken by the U.S. Army on August 6, 1945, and distributed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The words written on the photo are from the source
An atomic cloud billows above Hiroshima city following the explosion of the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare in Hiroshima, in this handout photo taken by the U.S. Army on August 6, 1945, and distributed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The words written on the photo are from the source - Sputnik International
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The United States made Japan its "satellite-ally" by dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Sunday, mayor of Nagasaki, Tomihisa Taue, called on US President Barack Obama and heads of other nuclear-armed powers to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The satellite state designates a country that is formally independent, but is under certain political, economic or military influence from another country. It was primarily used to describe the geopolitical relations during WWII and its aftermath, when the world was divided into the confronting political blocs.

A man prays after releasing a paper lantern on the Motoyasu river facing the Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, western Japan, August 6, 2015. - Sputnik International
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At the end of the Second World War, Japan was occupied by the Allied Powers, led by the United States. In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9 respectively. The bombing in Hiroshima killed about 140,000 residents of the city, and the raid on Nagasaki claimed the lives of some 70,000 people.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

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