In Japan, about 45,000 people attended a memorial at the Hiroshima Peace Park to mark the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on the city. Hiroshima’s Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba called on the international community to abolish all nuclear weapons.

• Tadatoshi Akiba: “The only role for nuclear weapons is to be abolished And yet the world’s political leaders continue to ignore these voices.”

Memorials are also scheduled for Wednesday to mark the bombing of Nagasaki. Over 200,000 people died in the atomic bombings of the two cities.