The mayor of Hiroshima called on world leaders to “please visit” the Japanese city and witness the reality of using nuclear weapons as he condemned the race by countries to possess such destructive arsenal.
To mark 80 years since the US detonated the first wartime nuclear bomb on the Japanese city in 1945, residents, survivors and representatives from 120 countries observed a moment of silence at 8.15am at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
