Threat of nuclear conflict hangs over 75th anniversary of Nagasaki attack

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the US atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.At 11:02am, the moment the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped a 4.5-tonne plutonium bomb dubbed “Fat Man”, Nagasaki survivors and other participants stood in a minute of silence to honour more than 70,000 dead.The threat of nuclear weapons being used is increasingly becoming realTomihisa…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3096629/threat-nuclear-conflict-hangs-over-75th-anniversary-nagasaki