UN chief sounds nuclear warning in Nagasaki

Fly free: Doves flying around the Peace Memorial Statue during a ceremony at Peace Park in Nagasaki. — AP

Tokyo: Millions still live in fear of nuclear war with many countries ramping up their atomic arsenals, the head of the United Nations warned, marking the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing.

Antonio Guterres, the first sitting UN secretary-general to attend ceremonies honouring those who died in the bombing, said that even 73 years later, there was still a “shadow cast by the dread of unthinkable carnage”.