Doves fly during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, at the city's Peace Park AFP/Philip FONGNAGASAKI: The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday commemorates the 75th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling back of ceremonies.
The number of participants has been reduced to roughly one tenth the figure in previous years, with proceedings broadcast live online in Japanese and English. "I saw many people with terrible burns and wounds evacuating ... people who were already dead in a primary school-turned shelter," Tanaka told AFP in a recent interview, saying his two aunts died.Atomic bomb survivors"believe that the world must abandon nuclear arms because we never want younger generations to experience the same thing", he said."Human beings possess about 13,000 nuclear bombs now. Our question is how on Earth are we allowing that?" he said.
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