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72 years since Nagasaki – and the nuke threat grows sharper
City mayor slams nuclear countries on anniversary

THE mayor of Nagasaki marked yesterday’s 72nd anniversary of the US atomic bombing of his city by warning that the threat of nuclear war is growing.

Tomihisa Taue voiced his fears at the annual memorial service for the 70,000 victims of the August 9 1945 attack, three days after the Hiroshima bombing that killed 140,000 people.

The crowd in the Japanese city’s Peace Park observed a minute’s silence at 11.02 am, the exact time when the “Fat Man” plutonium bomb detonated.

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