Since Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks, the mayor of Nagasaki warns that the world could again see the same kind of devastating attack.
About 2,600 people, including representatives from 90 countries, attended the memorial event in Nagasaki Peace Park on Saturday on Saturday, according to The corresponding press. At 11:02 am, the exact time that the bomb exploded over the city, the attendees held a moment of silence. Mayor of Nagasaki Shiro Suzuki, whose parents survived the 1945 attack, appealed to the crowd and called for global action against nuclear weapons.
“Conflicts around the world become intensification in a vicious circle of confrontation and fragmentation,” Suzuki told a crowd on Saturday, according to a translation through The Mainichi. “If we continue with this process, we will eventually bump ourselves in a nuclear war. This existential crisis of humanity has become imminent for each of us who live on earth.”
Pigeons are released over the peace statue during a ceremony on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the American atomic bombing in the Peace Park in Nagasaki, Zuid -Japan on Saturday, August 9, 2025. (Kotaro Ueda/Kyodo News via AP)
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Mayors for Peace, who brings together mayors and city leaders from all over the world, is holding its 11th General Conference in Nagasaki this weekend while the city mourns the tragic day. The aim of the organization is to abolish nuclear weapons, a point that Suzuki emphasizes in his comments.
“To make Nagasaki the last atomic bombing, it is essential to show a specific way of acting for achieving the abolition of nuclear weapons. Postponing can no longer be tolerated,” Suzuki said, according to the Mainichi.
The mayor also noted that the 2026 Review Conference of the parties in the Convention on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) “will represent a crucial moment that can influence the fate of humanity.”
Every five years, world leaders meet to revise the provisions of the NPT, which was opened in 1968 for signature and was taken into operation in 1970, 25 years after the bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A woman prays during a private ceremony to honor the victims of the atomic bombing and to pray for peace on the 80th anniversary of the bombing in the Hypocenter Park of Nagasaki in Nagasaki, West -Japan on Saturday 9 August 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The US dropped three atomic bombs on Japan for three days. The first was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and the second was dropped three days later, on August 9 at Nagasaki, on Nagasaki. The bombs decimated both cities, which led to the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945 and later the end of the Second World War.
A bomb nicknamed “Little Boy”, with a weight of around 9,000 pounds and produce an explosive force that is equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, explodes 1,800 feet above Hiroshima, which caused mass destruction. “Fat man,” The bomb fell on Nagasaki, weighed 10,000 pounds and exploded at about the same height as “little boy.”
Catholics hold torches while they run from the Cathedral of Urakami for a peace march to Hypocenter Park, on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, August 9, 2025. (Reuters/Issei Kato)
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“I would like to express my deepest condolences for the lives claimed by the atomic bombing and to all the victims of war,” Suzuki said, according to the Mainichi. “When marking 80 years after the atomic bombing, Nagasaki decided to pass on our duty, both in Japan and abroad, the memories of the bombing, which are a common heritage for all humanity and generations around the world.”
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He concluded with a statement, which was also translated by the Mainichi: “I hereby declare that to make Nagasaki the last atomic bombing now and for all, we will go hand in hand with global citizens and dedicate our greatest efforts to the abolition of nuclear weapons and the realization of aglasting world peace.”
