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nagasaki anniversary Humanity is confronting new arms race, UN chief warns

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

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