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August 6, Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

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Its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".

Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

As this Sunday marks the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, Japan's PM Fumio Kishida said the road to a world without nuclear weapons was getting steeper, due in part to Russia's nuclear threats. That this made it all the more important to bring back international momentum towards that goal, he added.

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