WASHINGTON: Hiroshima survivor Toshiko Tanaka, 83, of Japan, on the 77th anniversary of the bombing told Sputnik she wants her generation to be the last to suffer through the type of experience wrought by a nuclear weapon.

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima that instantly killed 80,000 Japanese, mostly civilians. Three days later, the United States dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing some 40,000 people, which led to the Japanese surrender on August 15. The total death toll eventually reached 355,000 due to the radiation fallout.