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EVENTS were staged over the weekend to mark the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The civilian populations of the two cities were targeted in the second world war by the United States, the only country ever to use nuclear weapons to attack another country.
Among the commemorations in Britain, as part of worldwide solidarity, was an event in Bradford in West Yorkshire.
Wreaths were laid in the city centre prior to a march to Lister Park on the outskirts of the city centre for speeches and music.
Other centres marking the anniversary included Coventry, which suffered severe damage, hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries in repeated raids in 1940 by Germany’s Luftwaffe using conventional bombs.
Coventry was a centre for munitions production. Today it dubs itself the “City of Peace and Reconciliation” and has links with Hiroshima.
