Nagasaki marks atomic bomb anniversary with sombre ceremony
Posted: 10th August 2021
By Kyoko HASEGAWA
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 9, 2021
The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Monday commemorated the 76th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with the mayor calling for the global community to build on a new nuclear ban treaty.
Nagasaki was flattened in an atomic inferno that killed 74,000 people, three days after the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima.
The twin attacks rang in the nuclear age and gave Japan the bleak distinction of being the only country to be struck by atomic weapons.
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