Nagasaki marks 75 years since atomic bombing

Doves flying over the Peace Statue in Nagasaki's Peace Park during a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the city, in Nagasaki, Japan, on Sunday (Aug 9). - AFP

NAGASAKI, Japan, Aug 9 (AFP): The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with its mayor and the head of the United Nations warning against a nuclear arms race.

Nagasaki was flattened in an atomic inferno three days after Hiroshima -- twin nuclear attacks that rang in the nuclear age and gave Japan the bleak distinction of being the only country to be struck by atomic weapons.