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

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday commemorated the victims of the atomic bombing 80 years ago, as global concerns over the threat of nuclear conflict continue to grow. At a ceremony marking the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki,