The ceremony marks the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

On Wednesday, a minute of silence took place in Hiroshima during a ceremony to mark 80 years since the United States abandoned an atomic bomb in the Japanese city.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony and urged all countries to work towards nuclear disarmament.

“We have to make all the effort to make a world without nuclear war and finally a world without nuclear weapons,” Ishiba told the public of the Peace Memorial park in Hiroshima.

Bombs have dropped to Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people – some of the immediate explosion and others in radiation and burning pain.