As the 80th anniversary of the launch of these weapons of mass destruction approaches 2025, the authorities urged the U.S. president to come to these cities to hear first-hand testimonies, hear the strong desire for peace, and try to understand the inhumanity of nuclear weapons.

During Trump’s first term, both mayors united under the same initiative and a response never came.

Hiroshima received visits from President Barack Obama in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2023, but the U.S. has never apologized for the bombings.

The U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, at the end of World War II (1939-1945), when the Allies had almost won the war, has been an issue questioned for years by numerous historians.

Undoubtedly, the massacre determined Japan’s unconditional surrender; but the human cost is still being paid.

Approximately 66,000 people lost their lives in Hiroshima at the instant of the explosion on August 6, 1945; while in Nagasaki, three days later, the figure was close to 70,000.

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