TOKYO, Aug 9: The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Wednesday mourned the 61st anniversary of the world’s second and last nuclear attack, with its mayor voicing anger that non-proliferation efforts were “collapsing”.
Some 4,600 people, ranging from aging survivors to local teenagers, offered a minute of silent prayers under hot sunshine at 11:02 am (0202 GMT), the moment of the blast in 1945.
The US nuclear bomb, codenamed “Fat Man” after Winston Churchill, killed more than 70,000 people in Nagasaki, known for its early openness to foreign trade.—AFP
