Nagasaki has marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic attack on the southern city in Japan. Survivors are determined to make their hometown the last place on Earth hit by a nuclear bomb.

Some 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki following the US atomic bomb drop three days after Hiroshima, as the town’s mayor, Shiro Suzuki, calls to ‘stop armed conflicts immediately’. View on euronew

Key Points and Summary – Eighty years ago this week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, forcing the end of World War II. -On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the “Little Boy” uranium bomb on Hiroshima,