Today is World Day for the Prohibition of nuclear weapons: why the countries that own them do not want to give them up

Today, on the sixth of August, events are being held in many countries of the world on the occasion of the World Day for the Prohibition of nuclear weapons, writes UNN.

On the morning of August 6, 1945, an American Enola Gay plane dropped a little Boy nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The nuclear bomb exploded at an altitude of 600 meters, 43 seconds after it was dropped from the plane. The explosion almost immediately killed 80 thousand people. 200 thousand people suffered radiation damage. Most of them died in the first years after the bombing.

One of the few structures that survived the nuclear attack was the building of the "House of industrial assistance". It was around it that architect Kenzo Tange built a Peace Memorial Park in 1954, which is a constant reminder to present and future generations about the dangers of using nuclear weapons.

For a long time, it was believed that the presence of nuclear weapons could become a deterrent and one of the key elements of the counterweight system during the Cold War.

In the first decades after World War II, the so-called nuclear five was formed: the United States, the ussr (now the russian federation), Great Britain, France, and China.

Subsequently, India, Pakistan and North Korea joined the" nuclear club".

It is believed that Israel also has nuclear weapons. Iran is trying to develop its nuclear program.

After the collapse of the ussr, Ukraine also had nuclear weapons. However, after signing the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, Ukraine refused it in exchange for security guarantees from the United States, Great Britain and the russian federation.