Hiroshima: Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about growing support among global leaders for nuclear weapons possession for deterrence.

With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now exceeding 86, the anniversary is considered the last milestone event for many of them.

“We do not have much time left, while we face greater nuclear threat than ever,” Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation of survivors that won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for its pursuit of nuclear abolishment, said in a statement. “Our biggest challenge now is to change nuclear weapons states that give us cold shoulders even just a little.” The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A........

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