長崎紀念原子彈爆炸70週年

The city of Nagasaki marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing Sunday with calls to abolish nuclear weapons and halt the Japanese government's push to loosen restrictions on what its military can do.

With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the audience, a representative of Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors told an annual ceremony that security legislation introduced by Abe's government goes against the wishes of the survivors and ``will lead to war.''

Representatives from 75 countries, including U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, were among those gathered under a tall white canopy to shade them from the sun on a 31-degree-Celsius morning at Nagasaki Peace Park.

As a bell tolled, they observed a minute of silence at 11:02 a.m., the time when the a U.S. B-29 plane dropped the atomic bomb, killing more than 70,000 people and helping to prompt Japan's World War II surrender. The first atomic bomb in Hiroshima three days earlier killed an estimated 140,000.日本長崎市星期天紀念原子彈爆炸70週年。美聯社報道說，當年爆炸的倖存者呼籲廢除核武器並制止日本政府推動放寬軍事限制的行爲。

在日本首相安倍晉三出席的儀式上，長崎原子彈爆炸倖存者的一位代表發言說，安倍政府出臺安全立法違背了倖存者的意願，並“會導致戰爭”。

包括美國大使卡羅琳·肯尼迪在內的來自75個國家的代表在長崎和平公園參加紀念活動。

當地時間上午11點02分，隨着鐘聲敲響，人們默哀一分鐘。70年前的這一時刻，美國的B-29飛機空投原子彈，造成超過7萬人喪生，最終促使日本二戰投降。3天前在廣島爆炸的第一顆原子彈致使大約14萬人死亡。