TOKYO, Aug 6 (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”.

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    I’m pretty sure if we didn’t have nuclear weapons at all generally, we’d be in a world war right now or a continent wide war at the very least so in that sense so far they have functioned as a deterrent. Whether that’s any consolation for Ukranians is doubtful