Nagasaki | 78 years of the atomic bomb that devastated the Japanese city

Japan’s prime minister highlighted the growing difficulty of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons.

It is the 78th anniversary of the nuclear attack that devastated Nagasaki.

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On August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city by the US army, exploding at an altitude of 470 meters, destroying 40% of the city.

Nagasaki recalled the tragedy on Wednesday at a ceremony, more modest than usual due to a typhoon turned into a tropical storm.

At 11:02, the exact time the bomb exploded, there was a minute of silence.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was unable to travel to the city due to the storm, but stressed in a video message the growing difficulty of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons.

For his part, UN Secretary General António Guterres said the body’s top priority is to achieve a world without these “inhumane weapons” to prevent a devastation similar to Nagasaki from occurring.

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