Fifty-eight years after the first use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima this year fell under the shadow of the continuing Iraq conflict and aggressive overtures between the US and North Korea.
At a ceremony conducted at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on the morning of Wednesday, 6 August, Hiroshima mayor Tadakoshi Akiba led the crowd of 40,000 in observing the traditional minute's silence before…