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The bombing was followed up by a strike three days later on another southern city, Nagasaki.

Seventy years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Sunday (August 9) described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity”.

Tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima Thursday to mark 70 years since the dropping of the first atomic bomb, with opinion still divided over whether its deadly destruction was justified. Abe said that to demonstrate this determination, Japan will introduce a new resolution at...

Veterans and former prisoners of war will be joined later by the Royal Family at events commemorating the 70th anniversary of VJ Day. Veterans and former prisoners of war will also be present, with the Prime Minister and and other dignitaries.

He said the world till bristles with more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. However, one US publication has made a rather freakish claim.

Queen Elizabeth II led ceremonies in Britain on Saturday marking the 70th anniversary of the victory over Japan during World War II.

Children, elderly survivors and delegates representing 100 countries were in the crowd with many placing flowers in front of the cenotaph at Peace Memorial Park, as doves were released into the air. Almost everything around it was incinerated by a wall of heat up to 4,000 degrees...

Still in The New York Times, a picture illustrated how a bell was tolled at 8:15 (local time) followed by a minute of silence to mourn for the moment that the city was incinerated by an atomic bomb.

A message from UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon echoed the calls of Mr Taue and others to abolish nuclear weapons.

Norwegian People’s Aid, the labour movement’s humanitarian organisation for solidarity, has for many years been pushing the Norwegian politicians to take active, driving role in the fight to prohibit nuclear weapons.

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.

Per Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those three principles are, “not possessing, not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons, in line with Japan’s Peace Constitution”.

Bells tolled as a solemn crowd observed a moment of silence at 8.15am local time, when the detonation turned the western Japanese city into an inferno, killing thousands instantly and leaving others to die a slow death with terrible injuries.

Tens of thousands were injured and died later. The second bomb, “Fat Man”, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima yesterday to mark 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today over whether the total destruction it caused was justified.