Donald Trump\u2019s comments have been slammed as \u2018unacceptable\u2019 by officials of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and survivors of the 1945 bombings.<\/b>
\nJapanese leaders and survivors of the atomic bombings have denounced President Donald Trump\u2019s comparison of the US strike on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities to the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, describing his remarks as deeply inappropriate and historically insensitive.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki condemned Trump\u2019s comments, saying the use of nuclear weapons was \u201cunacceptable\u201d no matter the circumstances \u2013 a lesson that should be self-evident from the devastating toll of the US bombing of his city on August 9, 1945.
The initial explosion from the \u201cFat Man\u201d plutonium bomb killed as many as 80,000 people in Nagasaki, while many tens of thousands more died before the end of 1945 from radiation poisoning.
Suzuki said he did not understand what Trump meant in his comments. If they were designed to justify the nuclear attacks on Japan, Nagasaki and its people would express \u201cprofound regret\u201d, he added.
Trump\u2019s comments, delivered during a joint press conference with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte in The Hague on Wednesday, have drawn confusion and criticism for their ambiguity.
\u201cThe damage to Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities is extremely serious. That attack ended the war. I don\u2019t want to use Hiroshima as an example. I don\u2019t want to use Nagasaki as an example. But essentially it\u2019s the same. It ended the war,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n