From a Washington Post story by Annabelle Timsit headlined “Japan, on Hiroshima bombing anniversary, decries Russia’s ‘nuclear threat'”:

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by another one on Nagasaki. The world’s first — and so far only — wartime atomic bombings remain seared in the minds of all those alive at the time and are often invoked as reminders of the disastrous consequences of nuclear armament.