the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China -- as well as India, Pakistan and North Korea were "jeopardising human survival". The Hiroshima bomb unleashed a mix of shockwaves, heat rays and radiation that killed thousands instantly. By the end of 1945 the toll had risen to some 140,000 out of an estimated population of 350,000. Thousands more died of illness and injuries later. On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the Hiroshima attack, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending the military aggression that brought it into World War Two. Yohei Kono, the speaker of parliament's lower house, said the Hiroshima anniversary should remind Japan not to return to militarism and the world not to use nuclear weapons again. "We made a mistake in choosing our path in Asia and followed a road to war," said Kono. "We took away the independence of Korea and we intervened in China using the military ... one of the results of fighting against the international community was the dropping of the atomic bomb." --mor 1337 Local Time 1037 GMT
