Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and other speakers during Tuesday s ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the second atom bomb dropped on Japanese soil by the United States at the end of World War II insisted that theirs should be the last tragedy ever of that nature.
TOKYO Nagasaki paid tribute to the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing 77 years ago on Aug. 9, with the mayor saying Russia's war on Ukraine showed the world that another nuclear attack is not just a worry but "a tangible and present crisis."
Mayor Tomihisa Taue, in his speech Tuesday at the Nag
Nagasaki yesterday paid tribute to those killed in the US atomic bombing 77 years ago, with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue saying that Russia’s war on Ukraine showed the world that another nuclear attack is not just a worry, but “a tangible and present crisis.”
Nuclear weapons can be used as long as they exist and their elimination is the only way to save the future of humankind, Taue said in a speech at Nagasaki Peace Park.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and threat of nuclear weapons use came only a month after it and four other nuclear powers pledged in a statement that
Atomic bomb survivors and bereaved families of victims offered prayers for peace on Tuesday during the 77th ceremony marking the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki.