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TOKYO( AFP)-The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Monday( Aug 9) commemorated the 76th anniversary of its destruction by a United States atomic bomb, with the mayor calling for the global community to build on a new nuclear ban treaty. Nagasaki was flattened in an atomic inferno that killed 74, 000 people, three days after the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima. The twin attacks rang in the nuclear age and gave Japan the bleak distinction of being the only country to be struck by atomic weapons. Survivo

High school students form a human chain around the hypocenter cenotaph in Nagasaki on Aug.... After a moment of silence was observed at 11: 02 a.m., the exact time of the bombing on Aug.... Taue's call on Japan to join the nuclear weapon ban treaty followed a similar appeal made by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui three days ago, when the city, also devastated by an atomic bomb during World War II, had its annual ceremony....