Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing that killed 140,000 people, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. "This hell is not a thing of the past," Matsui said in his peace declaration. "As long as nuclear weapons exist and policymakers threaten their use, their horror could leap into our present at any moment. You could find yourself suffering their cruelty." Hiroshima's appeal of "never again" on the 72nd anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack has acquired renewed urgency as North Korea moves ever closer to acquiring nuclear weapons. (Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP)
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