Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war after 80 years of Nagasaki

The Mayor of Nagasaki has appealed to end the fiery wars in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US Atom bomb attack which destroyed the Japanese city.

Shiro Suzuki said in a peaceful declaration at a serious ceremony to mark the event, “The struggle around the world is fast in a vicious cycle of conflict and fragmentation.”

“If we continue on this trajectory, we will throw ourselves into an atomic war.”

Attacks on 9 August 1945, which analysts say that there was a hurry at the end of the World War 2, the estimated 74,000 people were killed.

Over the years that many survivors were suffering from leukemia or other serious side effects of radiation.

Saturday’s celebrations came a few days after the first atomic bombing, which targeted the Japanese city of Hiroshima 80 years ago on 6 August, killing 140,000 people.

Nagasaki bomb, big and more powerful, erased the entire communities in seconds.

The reconstruction began with a moment of the memorial silence in the city.

Nagasaki’s twin Cathedral bells also united for the first time after the attack in the message of peace to the world.

As part of Saturday’s function, water was offered in a moving and symbolic gesture – 80 years ago the victim whose skin was burning after burning, after begging for water.

Today, participants from different generations, including a representative of the remaining people, offered water to perform the honor of those who were killed in the nuclear fire.

Suzuki said in the announcement, “On 9 August 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city.”

“Now, 80 years after the day, which could probably imagine that our world would be formed in this way? Struggle with controversies in which ‘the force has joined the force’.”

The bomb survivor Hiroshi Nishioca, 93, which was just 3 km (1.8 mi) from the place where the explosion occurred, told the ceremony of terror that he saw.

“Even lucky people (who were not seriously injured) slowly began to bleed from their gums and lost their hair, and one after another died,” he said, as quoted by the AFP news agency.

“Despite the end of the war, the atomic bomb brought invisible terror.”

50 -year -old Nagasaki resident Atsuko Higachi told AFP that it “please him” that the victims of the city were being remembered.

“Instead of thinking that these incidents are of the past, we must remember that these are real events that have happened,” he said.

Currently the most bloodshed in the world is the war between Russia and Ukraine, and between Israel and Gaza-based groups Hamas.

Was there Controversy last year when Nagasaki refused to invite Israel For the annual memory, citing security concerns.

This year the mayor said Israel was invited, as well as Russia and its colleague Belarus It was shaken since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

An international agreement banning nuclear weapons, the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, came into force in 2021.

More than 70 countries have confirmed the treaty, but nuclear powers have opposed it, arguing their nuclear arsenal acting as a barrier.

Japan has also rejected the ban, saying that its security has increased by American nuclear weapons.