Nagasaki mayor warns of the nuclear war after 80 years of Nagasaki

The mayor of Nagasaki appealed to end the world’s skill wars on the eighties of the American corn bomb attack that destroyed the Japanese city.

“Conflicts around the world are intensifying in a vicious session of confrontation and fragmentation,” Shero Suzuki said in a peace declaration at an official ceremony to celebrate the event.

“If we continue this path, we will finally end in a nuclear war.”

The attack on August 9, 1945, which analysts say rushed to the end of World War II, killed an estimated 74,000 people.

In the years that followed many survivors who suffered from leukemia or other severe side effects of radiation.

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

Nagasaki bomb, larger and more powerful, erasing the entire societies in seconds.

The celebration began in the city that was rebuilt with a moment of silence.

The Nagasaki Cathedral’s bells also rang in complete harmony for the first time since the attack, in a peace message to the world.

As part of the Saturday party, water shows were presented in an animated and symbolic gesture – 80 years before the victims whose skin was burning after the explosion begged.

Today, participants of various generations, including the survivor representative, offered to show the respect of those who died in the nuclear fire.

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

“Now, after 80 years of that day, who could have imagined that our world will become like this? Immediately stops the conflicts in which the power is met by strength.”

The survivor of the bomb, Hiroshi Nishyuka, 93, who was only 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the place where he exploded, said the horror ceremony he witnessed.

He said: “Even the lucky ones (who were not severely wounded) gradually began to bleed from their gums and lose their hair, and one after the other died.”

“Although the war has ended, the atomic bomb brought invisible terrorism.”

50 -year -old Abitsueto Higucci told AFP that “made her happy” that the city’s victims are remembered.

“Instead of thinking that these events belong to the past, we must remember that these are real events that occurred,” she added.

Among the most bloody conflicts in the world are the war between Russia and Ukraine, which between Israel and the Gaza -based Hamas Group.

There was Controversy last year when Nagasaki refused to invite Israel To the annual celebration, citing security concerns.

This year, the mayor said Israel, as well as Russia and its ally, were invited to Belarus It has been avoided since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

An international agreement to ban nuclear weapons entered the treaty to ban nuclear weapons, in effect in 2021.

More than 70 countries have believed the treaty, but the nuclear forces opposed them, on the pretext that their nuclear arsenals act as a deterrent.

Japan also refused the ban, saying that its security is strengthened by US nuclear weapons.