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Hell on Earth

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."
Saturday August 9, 2003 | comments (0)

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