US President Joseph Biden, during a trip to Japan in Hiroshima for the G7 summit, will not apologize for the bombing of the city. Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser to the President of the United States, told reporters aboard a plane bound for Japan, TASS reports.
G7 leaders will lay flowers and attend other events in Hiroshima. However, Biden will not make a statement at that city’s Peace Memorial Park, Sullivan said.
The national security adviser explained that this was not a bilateral event for the head of the White House. The G7 leaders will pay tribute “to history and to Prime Minister Kishida, who was born in Hiroshima”, Sullivan said.
American planes dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and three days later on Nagasaki. At the same time, according to various sources, from 150 to 250 thousand people died or disappeared. Another 200,000 were exposed to radiation. These bombings were the only case of the use of nuclear weapons in combat in the history of mankind.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki unprecedented in terms of destruction and human suffering, but avoided answering who exactly bombed Japanese cities.
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