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Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under fire for his attempts to expand the military’s role.

At 11:02am on August 9, 1945, instant death reached some 80,000 people when a plutonium implosion-type bomb, dubbed Fat Man, changed the course of history and warfare’s rules of engagement.

Representatives from 75 countries, including US ambassador Caroline Kennedy, were among those gathered under a tall white canopy to shade them from the sun on a 31C morning at Nagasaki Peace Park.

He guaranteed that Japan would keep on maintaining its long-held standards: not creating, having or permitting atomic weapons on Japanese region.

Abe said that as the sole country to face a nuclear attack, Japan had a duty to push for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

On this day 70 years ago, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, instantly vaporizing people and structures within a mile radius of ground zero.

“As the only country in the world to have experienced the horror of nuclear devastation in war, Japan will look for a world free of nuclear weapons abiding by the three non-nuclear principles of no possessing, no producing and no permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan”, Abe said at the Nagasaki event. “I can not tolerate the bills”.

A constitution imposed by a post-war US occupation force prevented the military from engaging in combat except in the nation’s own self-defence.

The mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue was among those heeding the concerns of survivors, taking the opportunity to criticize the government’s actions while prime minister Abe listened on at the memorial ceremony.

It is beyond contemptible for O’Neill, separated by 70 years of peace and not having to worry as a member of the U.S. Navy or an invasion assault battalion or their families, to demand we apologize.

Abe has also been the subject of close scrutiny with regard to plans for marking the upcoming 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender.

“Even after so many decades, we continue to see the catastrophic health impact from the use of nuclear weapons on these two cities”, said ICRC president Peter Maurer.

Few people on the planet remember the fateful day when the US decided to obliterate the second Japanese city, despite the historic consensus that after Hiroshima, Washington had already emerged victorious in the over Japan in World War II in the Pacific.

On a nondescript side street a plaque marks the spot where, directly overhead, the atomic bomb was exploded.