Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks in front of the Cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims and the Atomic Bomb Dome in the Peace Memorial Park during the Presidency Press Conference of the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, 21 May 2023. . KIMIMASA MAYAMA/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

TOKYO (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".

The day to commemorate the victims of the world's first nuclear attack comes as Russia has raised the spectre of using nuclear weapons in its war with Ukraine.