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The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called for ridding the world of nuclear weapons amid Russia's threats to use them in its war against Ukraine, as the first meeting of parties to a U.N. treaty prohibiting the ultimate weapons of war started Tuesday in Vienna. The three-day meeting aims to…
VIENNA The mayor of Hiroshima underscored the urgency of making the U.N. nuclear ban treaty a reality in light of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repeated threat to use nuclear arms since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki on June 20 appealed for the understanding of the inhumanity of nuclear weapons at an international conference in Vienna, ahead of the first meeting under a U.N. treaty to ban such arms.
The atomic bomb dropped by the US over Nagasaki killed tens of thousands of people in an instant. During a ceremony marking the bombing's anniversary, the city's mayor called for a global ban on nuclear weapons.