Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Lanterns float on a lake in Potsdam on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan's Nagasaki in World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman's order for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was issued during his stay in the eastern German city in the closing days of the war in the summer of 1945.

Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Lanterns float on a lake in Potsdam on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan's Nagasaki in World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman's order for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was issued during his stay in the eastern German city in the closing days of the war in the summer of 1945.

Soviet-era nuclear test site

Video taken from a drone on Sept. 16, 2022, shows the "Atomic Lake" at the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. Video taken on Sept. 15, 2022, shows observation tower ruins at the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. Semipalatinsk was once the Soviet Union's primary test area for nuclear weapons.

Soviet-era nuclear test site

Soviet-era nuclear test site

Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2022, shows the "Atomic Lake" at the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. Semipalatinsk was once the Soviet Union's primary test area for nuclear weapons.

Soviet-era nuclear test site

Soviet-era nuclear test site

Photo taken from a drone on Sept. 16, 2022, shows the "Atomic Lake" at the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. Semipalatinsk was once the Soviet Union's primary test area for nuclear weapons.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims remembered in Germany

Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims remembered in Germany

German and Japanese citizens release about 50 lanterns at Lake Griebnitzsee during an event in Potsdam, Germany, on July 25, 2015, to remember the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The city near Berlin is known as a place where U.S. President Harry Truman in 1945 ordered the dropping of the bombs on the Japanese cities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo