Post date: Aug 09, 2013 10:38:57 AM
R Reports - A tolling bell marks the exact moment the Japanese city of Nagasaki became the nation's second victim of the atomic bomb.
The weapon was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945 by the United States.
More than 150, 000 people died in the attack and from the subsequent effects of radiation.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe repeated his call for a world without nuclear weapons.
It was the same message he delivered at the commemoration of the bombing ofHiroshima earlier the same week.
But it drew a critical response from the mayor of Nagasaki over the Japanese government's refusal to sign a non-proliferation treaty.
TOMIHISA TAUE, MAYOR OF NAGASAKI,
"This is against the spirit that we, as the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, will never allow anyone else in this world to experience what we had to go through."
Japan surrendered six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, bringing World War II to an end.