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The Japanese city of Nagasaki soberly commemorated on Monday the American nuclear bombing that destroyed it 76 years ago, the mayor calling on the international community to adopt a new treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. On August 9, 1945, at 11:02 a.m., the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans killed 74,000 people, three days after the nuclear attack that wiped out Hiroshima, killing 140,000.

Survivors and a handful of foreign officials took part in a minute of silence