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Nagasaki soberly commemorates 76th anniversary of nuclear bombing
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