Hiroshima marked the 77th anniversary of its atomic bombing by the United States on Aug. 6, amid heightened concerns in Japan and elsewhere over Russia s repeated suggestions that it may resort to nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine.
HIROSHIMA Hiroshima on Aug. 6 marked the day 77 years ago when a blinding flash leveled this western Japan city in the first use of an atomic bomb in warfare, killing tens of thousands of residents in an instant and thousands more in the years that followed.