United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned against the clear and present danger of nuclear weapons as Japan is marking the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US.

The Japanese Prime Minister’s speech to the US Congress is a “shame and disgrace”, says Russia.

The astonishing scale of death and destruction in Gaza has invited comparisons with what happened in Hiroshima in 1945 and Bosnia in the early 1990s – all of them with Western backing.

It will be an unforgivable sin to consider the mastermind of the first nuclear bomb – J. Robert Oppenheimer – as innocent, whose creation assured the world's guaranteed destruction.

Iran’s foreign minister and a group of survivors of chemical weapons visit Japan as the country remembers the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Anti-war activists held a protest in New York to mark the 78th anniversary of the US atomic bombing on Hiroshima.

On August 6, 1945, on the orders of then-US President Harry Truman, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first-ever atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, leaving a trail of death and destruction.