Nagasaki mayor pleads for end to nuclear threat

TOKYO: Nagasaki must be the last place to suffer an atomic bombing, its mayor said Wednesday, marking 72 years since the devastating American nuclear attack on the Japanese city with a passionate call for denuclearization.

The anniversary comes as tensions over North Korea’s rogue weapons program and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from United States president Donald Trump rattle the region and put nuclear threats in the spotlight.