The mayor of the Japanese city of Hiroshima has urged the next US president to work to abolish atomic weapons as the city marks the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.
Over 40,000 people, including Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, gathered at a memorial to the dead near the A-bomb dome to offer silent prayers at 8:15 am local time, the exact moment in 1945 when a single US bomb killed more than 140,000 people and fatally injured tens of thousands of others with radiation or horrific burns. In his speech, Hiroshima Germany marks anniversary of 1944 plot to kill Hitler ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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