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The mayor of Nagasaki says progress has been made on eliminating nuclear weapons but there needs to be a complete ban.
He spoke at a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of the devastating U.S. attack on the Japanese city that killed about 80,000 people.
His speech came just after 11:02 a.m., local time, the time when a plutonium American bomb flattened Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. The mayor (Tomihisa Taue) says keeping nuclear weapons "will carry us toward annihilation."
The atomic attack on Nagasaki came three days after one on Hiroshima, in which 140,000 people were killed or died within months. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II.
At Sunday's ceremony, Nagasaki observed a moment of silence at the moment of detonation 64 years earlier, while a large bell in the city's Peace Park was rung repeatedly.
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