9/8/2025–|Last update: 10:04 (Mecca time)
Hundreds of their heads in Nagasaki today commemorated the 80th anniversary of the American atomic bomb on the Japanese city, while the mayor warned that current global conflicts may push the world again to a nuclear war.
After standing a minute of silence at 11:02 am, the time when the attack took place, the mayor, Shero Suzuki, called on the leaders to return to the principles of the United Nations Charter and show concrete steps towards eliminating nuclear weapons, warning that the delay was “no longer permitted.”
“This is a crisis of human survival and approaching each of us,” Suzuki said to the crowd, which the Japanese media estimated up to 2,700 people.
He quoted the testimony of one of the survivors at the time, describing the nuclear attack.
Representatives of 95 countries and regions, including the United States, attended the Great Nuclear Force and Israel, which did not confirm or deny that they have nuclear weapons, the annual ceremonies at the Nagasaki Memorial Park of Peace.
Representatives of Russia, which has the largest nuclear stock in the world.
Survivors still suffer from the effects of radiation and social discrimination. With their number to less than 100,000 for the first time this year, their stories nourish the ongoing efforts to call for a world free of nuclear weapons.
The city in the western Japan was set to the land on the ninth of August 1945, when the United States threw a Blueonium-239 bomb weighing 10,000 pounds, called “the obese man”, which immediately killed almost 27,000 of the city’s residents, who were estimated at 200 thousand.
By the end of 1945, the number of deaths caused by acute exposure to radiation reached about 70,000.
Nagasaki was destroyed 3 days after the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by the US-235 bomb. On August 15, Japan surrendered to the Second World War.