Nearly eight decades after the US dropped an atomic bomb, codenamed “Fat Man”, on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was among the voices across the world renewing calls for eliminating nuclear weapons.
In a message this week to the Nagasaki Peace Memorial on the 78th anniversary of the 1945 bombing, Guterres said the “ceremony is an opportunity to remember a moment of unmatched horror for humanity”.
“We mourn those killed, whose memory will never fade. We remember the terrible destruction