"Japan is determined to make even greater efforts towards realizing a world free of nuclear weapons as we continue to call for the cooperation of both nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states," he stated in his address during the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony.
  "As an expression of that determination, the Government of Japan will submit a new draft resolution on the total elimination of nuclear weapons at the United Nations General Assembly this autumn." Like every year, the bells of Hiroshima tolled at 8:15 a.m. local time (1:15 a.m. CET), signalling the beginning of the commemorative ceremony for the victims of the first bombing, intended to accelerate the end of World War II.
  The bombing of Nagasaki followed on August 9 of 1945. (AGI)