Diplomats from the United States, Britain and France, for the first time Japanese have attended an event to mark the start of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
A church bell rang to start a small of silence at 8:15 timer, the time allowed by a unit of American bombers on Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people.
The U.S. choice to his ambassador, John Roos, send to the ceremony, as potentially the way for Barack Obama, Bush to visit Hiroshima, which are never there would have been seen for a session leader of the United States.
Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, said in Washington Thursday that Obama believes it is appropriate to admit this anniversary.
A total of 74 countries were represented at the commemoration this year.
Al Jazeera’s Steve Chao, reporting from Hiroshima, said that many Japanese felt the presence of the United States for the ceremony confirms the seriousness of Obama was working free for a world of nuclear weapons, but be warned that to accomplish a huge task be.
People here have no illusions that the challenges of the future be hard to approve of Congress for the reduction of stocks in which nuclear weapons and additional challenges by states like North Korea posed, and also that there are still over 25,000 nuclear warheads in the hands of various nations around the world.
Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, welcomed the efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament, it is encouraging to see that our voice will be heard.
It is the desire of the survivors of the attacks to be that the voice of concord is, he said in a speech at the ceremony said.
Akiba urged the Japanese regime to take the lead in disarmament and a new page in the description of mankind.
About 1,000 white doves as a symbol of concord, as Naoto Kan were released, Japanese Prime Minister addressed the ceremony.
Mankind must not be repeated the horror and misery caused by the atomic bombs, he said.
U.S. and Russia has more than 22,000 nuclear warheads between them, while France, Britain, China, India, Pakistan and Israel have a total of about 1,000 weapons, according to the International Commission on Non-proliferation and disarmament.
The global nuclear arsenal is the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima bombs.
Small Boy uranium bomb on Hiroshima four tonnes in 1945, a blinding flash and a fireball caused hot sufficient to melt glass sand and spray all the people in a radius of 1.6 km.
A 140,000 people in Hiroshima were killed instantly or died of burns and radiation sickness before long after the explosion, and over 70,000 have in the course of another atom in the American attack the port of Nagasaki three days later died.
For many of you that lasts for days, as bright as the white light that the sky, dark as the black rain following burning, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations.
In Concord Park, Hiroshima Memorial, where the ceremony took house on Friday, some visitors expressed their concern that Japan’s considered view of the attack by many as an excessive use of deadly break down – in conflict with the vision of the United States.
Azuma Nishibe, a concord activist of 61 years, said he welcomes the choice of the United States Roos position, but said this should not been led to adoption of this law.
I do not reflect it was necessary, he said. We have a very uncommon interpretation of description.
But we can not accept the report and agree that concord is more vital. This is the real lesson of Hiroshima.