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News in Brief 9 August 2021

9 August 2021
News in Brief
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The Hypocenter Monument at Nagasaki Peace Park, Japan.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN pledges full support to Nagasaki voices fuelling ‘powerful global movement’ against nuclear arms

8 August 2021
Peace and Security

António Guterres has reaffirmed the full support of the United Nations to amplifying the powerful testimony of the survivors of the atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, 76 years ago, which has helped build a “powerful global movement against nuclear arms”.

Ruins of Nagasaki about 800 metres from the hypocenter in mid-October 1945.
UN Photo/Shigeo Hayashi

Lessons of Nagasaki survivors should motivate the world to eliminate all nuclear weapons – UN chief

9 August 2020
Peace and Security

UN Secretary General António Guterres on Sunday marked 75 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with praise for the hibakusha, the survivors, who transformed their decades-long plight into a warning about the perils of nuclear weapons and an example of the triumph of the human spirit.

The smoldering ruins of Nagasaki, about 700 metres from the hypocentre of the explosion, as seen on 10 August 1945.
UN Photo/Yosuke Yamahata

Let Nagasaki remain ‘the last city’ to suffer nuclear devastation, says museum director as UN chief arrives

8 August 2018
Peace and Security

It’s essential that Nagasaki’s devastation should “not be forgotten” now or in the future, if the threat of nuclear war is to be lifted, said the Director of the Japanese city’s Atomic Bomb Museum, ahead of a visit there on Thursday by the UN Secretary-General.