Nagasaki mayor backs nuclear ban

The mayor of Nagasaki today called for a global ban on nuclear arms at a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of the devastating US attack on the Japanese city that killed about 80,000 people.

In a speech given just after 11.02am – the time when a plutonium American bomb flattened Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 – mayor Tomihisa Taue said some progress towards eliminating nuclear weaponry had been made, but more needed to be done.