00:00And in news overseas, today marks a tragic episode in humankind history
00:04and a grim reminder to us all on the very real potential of extinction of our species by our own doing.
00:11And this is the apocalyptic aftermath of Little Boy and Fat Man.
00:15Codenames for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 6 and 9, respectively, 80 years ago.
00:22Once booming industrial cities, they turned into desolate places of mass deaths and utter destruction
00:28after the mushroom clouds lifted and cleared.
00:31At least 140,000 died in Hiroshima and 70,000 more in Nagasaki.
00:37And God knows the tens of thousands more combined from radioactivity fallout afterwards.
00:42Earlier today, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba led government officials, VIPs,
00:48and distinguished guests in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park to honor the tens of thousands of his countrymen
00:53who lost their lives that fateful day.
00:55At 15 minutes past 8 in the morning, 80 years ago.
00:59This amidst Japan's standing defense policy of going nuclear as a tool of deterrence
01:04and given its geographic location, where neighbors like Russia, North Korea, and China
01:09are also major players in the nuclear arms race.
01:13Such arms race has shifted to the more powerful thermonuclear tools of warfare
01:17that could easily wipe out mankind, flora, and fauna off the face of the planet.
