The city of
Nagasaki, Japan, today marked the 58th anniversary of the dropping of the nuclear bomb in 1945 that turned the city into Hell on Earth, according to a report by the
Associated Press. Itcho Ito, the mayor of Nagasaki, is quoted by the AP as saying "
In an instant, the resulting heat, blast and radiation descended upon Nagasaki and transformed the city into a hell on earth." In his speech, Ito talked about the nuclear crisis in North Korea, the recent tension in India and Pakistan in which nuclear weapons played a roll, and expressed concern that "
International agreements supporting nuclear disarmament, nuclear nonproliferation and the prohibition of all nuclear weapons testing now appear to be on the verge of collapse."