The mayor of Nagasaki warns against the potential nuclear war on the 80th anniversary of bombing

While Japan marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic attacks, the mayor of Nagasaki warns that the world could review the same kind of devastating attack.

About 2,600 people, including representatives from 90 countries, attended the commemorative event on Saturday at Nagasaki Peace Park, according to The Associated Press. At 11:02 am, the exact time to which the bomb exploded on the city, the participants held a moment of silence. The mayor of Nagasaki, Shiro Suzuki, whose parents survived the 1945 attack, addressed the crowd and called for global action against nuclear weapons.

“Conflicts around the world are intensifying in a vicious circle of confrontation and fragmentation,” Suzuki told a crowd on Saturday, according to a translation of Mainichi. “If we continue on this trajectory, we will end up growing in a nuclear war. This existential crisis of humanity has become imminent for each of us living on earth.”

The doves are released during the statue of peace during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the American atomic attack at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, in southern Japan, on Saturday August 9, 2025. (Kotaro Ueda / Kyodo News via AP)

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Mayors for Peace, who brings together mayors and city leaders around the world, is holding its 11th general conference in Nagasaki this weekend while the city cries the tragic day. The objective of the organization is to abolish nuclear weapons, stressed that Suzuki stressed in his remarks.

“In order to make Nagasaki the last atomic bombing, it is essential to show a specific line of conduct for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Procrastination can no longer be tolerated,” said Suzuki, according to Mainichi.

The mayor also noted that the 2026 revision conference of the parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (TNP) “will represent a crucial moment capable of influencing the fate of humanity”.

Every five years, world leaders meet to examine the provisions of the TNP, which was opened to the signing in 1968 and entered into force in 1970, 25 years after the attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A woman prays during a private ceremony to honor the victims of the atomic bombing and pray for peace on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the Hyping Park of Nagasaki in Nagasaki, west of Japan on Saturday August 9, 2025. (Photo / Eugene Hoshiko)

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The United States has abandoned two atomic bombs on Japan three days apart. The first was abandoned on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the second was abandoned on Nagasaki three days later, on August 9. The bombs decimated the two cities, leading to the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945, and later the end of the Second World War.

A bomb nicknamed “Little Boy”, weighing around 9,000 pounds and producing an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tonnes of TNT, exploded 1800 feet on Hiroshima, causing massive devastation. “Fat Man”, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, weighed 10,000 pounds and exploded roughly the same altitude as “Little Boy”.

Catholics hold torches while walking from Urakami’s cathedral for a peace march to hypochenter Park, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the city bombardment in Nagasaki, in the southwest of Japan on August 9, 2025. (Reuters / Issei Kato)

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“I would like to express my deepest condolences for the lives won by the atomic attacks and to all the victims of the war,” said Suzuki, according to Mainichi. “By scoring 80 years from the atomic bombing, Nagasaki has decided to continue our duty of relay, both inside Japan and abroad, the memories of the attack, which are a heritage common to all of humanity and should be transmitted for generations around the world.”

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He concluded with a declaration, which was also translated by Mainichi: “I declare by the present that to make Nagasaki the last atomic attack site now and forever, we will go hand in hand with global citizens and devote our greatest efforts to the abolition of nuclear weapons and to the realization of world peace forever.”