The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invited Donald Trump to visit them this year, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of throwing atomic bombs in the two Witness cities of Japan.

Donald Trump did not visit the two martyred Japanese cities during his first term, although he had received an invitation from their mayors for memory events.

The US dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and another in Nagasaki on August 9th.

About 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki, among them many who survived the explosions later died due to the effects of radioactivity.

The US has never apologized for these bombings, the only times in history that have used nuclear weapons during a war.

‘We hope you change your mind’

In a joint letter to the US President, the two mayors ask him to visit their cities to “personally listen to the testimonies of the” chibakas “(the survivors of the atomic bomb), to understand their warm desire for peace and to delve deeper You of the inhumane nature of nuclear weapons ”.

“We sincerely hope to abandon the idea of ​​nuclear dependence and take strong initiatives in favor of the abolition of nuclear weapons and the establishment of global, constant peace,” they said in their letter dated January 28.

In 2010, former US ambassador to Japan John Rous became the first US official to attend annual commemoration events in Hiroshima, and two years later participated in the respective Nagasaki events.

Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Hiroshima in 2016, and so did Joe Biden in 2023.