Putin's deranged Hiroshima threat: Russian leader tells Macron the 1945 atom bomb is proof 'you don't have to launch nuclear strike on a major city to win a war'
- Vladimir Putin referenced the nuclear attacks in conversation with Macron
- The US detonated atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
- It killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people and Japan surrendered
- There is growing concern Putin could use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has alarmed Western leaders by referencing the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a conversation with French president Emmanuel Macron, diplomatic sources have said.
According to the sources, Putin expressed the view that the bombings – which triggered the Japanese surrender and the end of the Second World War – demonstrated that ‘you don’t need to attack the major cities in order to win’.
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
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