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Japan gears up to commemorate 75th anniversary of Nagasaki atomic bombing

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Nagasaki, Aug 8 (EFE/EPA).- The Japanese city of Nagasaki will commemorate on Sunday the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing that devastated its civilian population at the end of World War II with a ceremony in which local authorities urged the central government, the United States and Russia to join the United Nations' anti-nuclear treaty.The nuclear attack carried out by the US on Aug. 9, 1945, on Nagasaki was the second time the atomic bomb had been deployed following the one on Hiroshima three days earlier. It killed around 74,000 people, mostly civilians. (Camera: DAI KUROKAWA). SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF THE JAPANESE CITY OF NAGASAKI AND THE NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMB MUSEUM IN NAGASAKI, SOUTHERN JAPAN.

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