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TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".

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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't nuclear deterrence preventing the use of nukes, tho? ๐Ÿค” I mean, it does this by having nukes around to launch because the threat is "you launch yours, we launch ours and everybody dies. Do you wanna die? No? Then don't launch a nuke." But it seems to be effective. No one outside of Japan when nukes first came out has ever been nuked by another country.